Media and Global Climate Knowledge: Journalism and the IPCC
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Co-Editor: Matthew Tegelberg
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, analyzes how key journalists reflect on the challenges of covering climate change, and shows how the message of IPCC was distributed in the global networks of social media.
- Provides a compelling case study of the media coverage of a milestone in the policy and science of climate change, the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) report
- Analyzes not only newspaper coverage, but also policy networks, visuals, journalist surveys, and audience reactions
- Extends its geographic and cultural approach to cover more than 22 countries and several angles of analysis