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Media Representations of Climate Change: A Meta-Analysis of the Research Field

Pages 142-160
Published online: 08 May 2014
 
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A flurry of studies in recent years has analyzed the role of media in climate change communication. This article provides a systematic, large-scale, and up-to-date overview of the objects and characteristics of this research field through a meta-analysis. It identifies 133 relevant studies and analyzes them empirically. The results show that research activity has risen strongly over time, and that the analytical spectrum has expanded to include an increasing number of countries, more types of media including online and social media, and different methodological approaches. The analysis also demonstrates, however, that scholarship in the field still concentrates strongly on Western countries and print media.

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The research presented in this paper was funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) through the German Federal Cluster of Excellence “Climate System Prediction and Analysis” (EXC 177). The authors would like to thank Corinna Ballweg and Lea Borgmann for their invaluable help with data acquisition and coding the analyzed publications, Carola Kauhs from the University of Hamburg's ZMAW library for her support, Andreas Schmidt for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript, Rajiv Saunders for proofreading the manuscript, and the editors and anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions.

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