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A Comparative Analysis of German and Australian Climate Change Coverage in Quality Newspapers: Framing a political election and an environmental disaster
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Abstract In 2010, Germany and Australia had to deal with extreme floods. Was climate change considered as cause of these weather events in the media? In 2009, a conservative alliance committed to tackle climate change won the German election. In 2007, the Australian Labor Party claimed that “climate change i... view more
In 2010, Germany and Australia had to deal with extreme floods. Was climate change considered as cause of these weather events in the media? In 2009, a conservative alliance committed to tackle climate change won the German election. In 2007, the Australian Labor Party claimed that “climate change is the greatest moral challenge of our time” and won the election. But how was climate change covered by the media in the context of these two elections? Based on framing theory and the Extended Sphere Model, this work answers these two questions comparing the climate change coverage of two German and two Australian quality newspapers (n = 1.012 articles).... view less
Keywords
election; newspaper; Federal Republic of Germany; Australia; climate change; reporting; natural disaster
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Univ.-Verl. Ilmenau
City
Ilmenau
Page/Pages
248 p.
Series
NEU - Nachhaltigkeits-, Energie- und Umweltkommunikation, 6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.43076
ISSN
2197-6937
ISBN
978-3-86360-218-5
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications