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Popularity-driven science journalism and climate change: A critical discourse analysis of the unsaid

2018

Abstract This study traces popularity-driven coverage of climate change in New Scientist with the special aim of identifying which aspects of the issue have been backgrounded. Unlike institutional communication or quality press coverage of climate change, commercial science journalism has received less attention with respect to how it frames the crisis. Assuming that the construction of newsworthiness in popular science journalism requires eliminating, or at least obscuring, some alienating information, the study identifies prevalent frames, news values and discursive strategies in the outlet’s most-read online articles on climate change (2013–2015). With the official statement of the World…

Cultural Studiesframemedia_common.quotation_subject050801 communication & media studiesCritical discourse analysis0508 media and communicationsPolitical scienceNews valuesQuality (business)NarrativeSocial sciencemobilizationScience journalismmedia_common060201 languages & linguisticsNew Scientistbusiness.industryCommunication05 social sciences06 humanities and the artscritical discourse analysisPublic relationsPopularityclimate change0602 languages and literatureJournalismbusinesspopular science journalismUnderspecificationDiscourse, Context & Media
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