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The uncertainties of climate change in Spanish daily newspapers: content analysis of press coverage from 2000 to 2010

March 4, 2014 | Media and Technology
This paper explores media coverage of climate science through a selection of Spanish newspapers (El País, El Mundo, ABC, Expansión and Levante). We selected a stratified random sample of 363 items to be studied for eleven years (2000-2010). Content analysis allowed us to find out media attention paid to climate science, prevalence of informative tables, evaluation and characterization of news, as well as the presence of questioning or rejection of climate change. According to main results, press coverage of climate science in Spain was mainly focused on the consequences rather than on the causes or natural sources, and media attention paid to it was limited. Overlapping with social and macroeconomic problems in the country also contributed to communication of climate science as a controversial and uncertain science through informative framings.

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  • Emilia Lopera
    Author
    CIEMAT
  • Carolina Moreno
    Author
    CIEMAT
  • Citation

    ISSN : 1824-2049
    Publication Name: Journal of Science Communication
    Volume: 13
    Number: 1
    Resource Type: Research Products
    Discipline: Climate
    Audience: General Public | Scientists
    Environment Type: Media and Technology | Comics, Books, and Newspapers

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