Media and Global Climate Knowledge : Journalism and the IPCC /

This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism, it demonstrates, is a key eleme...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Kunelius, Risto; Eide, Elisabeth; Tegelberg, Matthew; Yagodin, Dmitry
Published: Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52321-1
Summary: This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism, it demonstrates, is a key element in the transnational communication infrastructure of climate politics. It examines variations of coverage in different countries and locations all over the world. It looks at how IPCC scientists review the role of media, reflects on how media relate to decision-making structures and cultures, a
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XX, 309 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781137523211
Index Number: JA85
CLC: D0
Contents: The problem: Climate change, politics and the media -- Science, communication and the space of global media attention: Journalism and the IPCC AR5 -- Attention, access and the global space of interpretation: Media dynamics of the IPCC AR5 launch year -- Mediated civic epistemologies? Journalism, domestication and the IPCC AR5 -- Disaster, risk or opportunity? A ten-country comparison of themes in coverage of the IPCC AR5 -- Journalism, climate change, justice and solidarity: Editorializing the IPCC AR5 in developed countries -- Emerging economies and BRICS climate policy: The justifying role