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Research on media coverage of climate change, as a particular subfield of environmental communication research, has proliferated over the past decade. This book sets out to consider what conclusions can be drawn in light of the existing body of work, what lessons can be learnt, what are the challenges to be met, and what are the directions to be taken in order to further develop media research on climate change. The mixture of articles in this volume serve well to illustrate the range of empirical, theoretical, and methodological approaches subsumed under the broad heading of "media studies on climate change." Some contributions focus on the past-how the subfield has developed and what we can learn from that-and some look toward the future. Either way, all the authors share the ambition to suggest important avenues of research, be they centered on media, context, applicability of results, or theoretical advancement. As such they make a valuable contribution to identifying important directions for future research on the role of the media in communicating climate change. This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Communication.
List of contents
Introduction Media Research on Climate Change: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Heading? 1. Media Representations of Climate Change: A Meta-Analysis of the Research Field 2. Constructions of Climate Change on the Radio and in Nepalese Lay Focus Groups 3. Integrating Media Studies of Climate Change into Transdisciplinary Research: Which Direction Should We Be Heading? 4. How Grammatical Choice Shapes Media Representations of Climate (Un)certainty 5. Democratic Debate and Mediated Discourses on Climate Change: From Consensus to De/politicization 6. Media Context and Reporting Opportunities on Climate Change: 2012 versus 1988 7. Media and Climate Change: Four Long-standing Research Challenges Revisited
Summary
This book identifies important directions for future research on the role of the media in communicating climate change. A broad outlook is taken from the past, present and in to the future, identifying important directions for future research in the role of the media.
