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The challenges of communicating climate change
Get PDF[Introduction] In an article from 2000 Sheldon Ungar stated that, unlike the ozone hole, climate change never generated a ‘hot crisis’. Looking at the prominence of the issue in the national and international political agendas and the volume of media coverage that it has sustained in the last five years or so one is led to believe that things have changed. A series of remarkable events has contributed to transform climate change into one of the most high profile issues of the present moment: hurricane Katrina, Al Gore’s film and book An Inconvenient Truth, the Nobel prize that was awarded jointly to him and to the IPCC, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, Live Earth, and the gloomy forecasts of the 4th IPCC Assessment Report all concurred to putting climate change on the media, the public’s and the political agendas, which then tend to feed each other. In fact, multiple surveys indicate that people around the world are aware of the issue and very concerned, are willing to act upon it and expect politicians to take the lead. Yet, global greenhouse gas emissions have
continued to rise rapidly.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT
Communicating climate change in Portugal: a critical analysis of journalism and beyond
Get PDFThis chapter analyses discourses circulating in the Portuguese public sphere(s) about climate change, and discusses the problems associated with representations of the issue in the press and television news. Understandings of risk and responsibility are given particular emphasis given their importance for problem definition and proposed courses of action. The study covers four print media: Correio da Manhã (a popular daily newspaper), Expresso (a quality weekly newspaper), Público (a quality daily newspaper) and Visão (a mid-market weekly news magazine). Various aspects of press coverage since 1990 are examined but we focus in more detail on four ‘critical moments’ between 2003 and 2007. A sample of recent television news from RTP1, 2: (both part of the public broadcasting company), SIC and TVI (private channels) is also analysed. Besides journalistic discourse, we look at some aspects of the communication of climate change by politicians, non-governmental organizations and other social actors, and how it relates to media discourses.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT
Uso dos media e envolvimento com as alterações climáticas
No full textSerá que existe congruência entre o nível de conhecimento sobre as alterações climáticas, as percepções de risco, o nível de preocupação e as intenções comportamentais para mitigar as alterações climáticas? E será que o consumo de informação mediatizada influencia significativamente o conhecimento e o envolvimento afectivo com a questão das alterações climáticas? Os resultados de um questionário com uma amostra portuguesa mostram um nível de conhecimento moderado, e preocupação e percepção de risco elevadas, que influenciam parcialmente o comportamento face às alterações climáticas. Os media são a fonte principal de informação sobre as alterações climáticas e as práticas de uso das fontes de informação têm um impacto significativo em algumas dimensões do envolvimento pessoal com a questão – Preocupação e, em menor grau, conhecimento das causas, acções de mitigação e intenções comportamentais. Contudo, o grau de utilização das fontes de informação parece ter pouco impacto nas percepções de risco e na valência afectiva das imagens associadas às alterações climáticas
Media uses and social representations of climate change
Get PDFA survey study with Portuguese participants (N=614) was carried out to investigate the relationship between practices of media consumption, the use of other sources of information, and social representations of climate change. Results show a moderate level of knowledge about climate change, a high level of concern and a high level of perceived risk towards the potential effects of climate change, emotionally negative images associated with climate change, and low frequency of climate-friendly individual behaviour. News media are reported to be the main sources of information on climate change and are positively assessed in terms of credibility. Practices of media consumption are a predictor variable of individual mitigation actions, behavioural intentions, concern about climate change and, in a smaller degree, knowledge about climate change. However, they have little impact on risk perceptions and on the emotional valence of the images associated with climate change.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT
sj-docx-1-urj-10.1177_03915603221113943 – Supplemental material for Impact of the suspension of neurogenic detrusor overactivity treatment with botulinum toxin due to the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-urj-10.1177_03915603221113943 for Impact of the suspension of neurogenic detrusor overactivity treatment with botulinum toxin due to the COVID-19 pandemic by Eduardo Freitas Ferreira, Rui Silva, Anabela Ferreira, Maria Paz Carvalho, Paulo Vale and Filipa Faria in Urologia Journal</p
Citizen voices: performing public participation in science and environment communication
No full textHow is "participation" ascribed meaning and practised in science and environment communication? And how are citizen voices articulated, invoked, heard, marginalised or silenced in those processes? Citizen Voices takes its starting point in the so-called dialogic or participatory turn in scientific and environmental governance in which practices claiming to be based on principles of participation, dialogue and citizen involvement have proliferated. The book goes beyond the buzzword of "participation" in order to give empirically rich, theoretically informed and critical accounts of how citizen participation is understood and enacted in mass mediation and public engagement practices. A diverse series of studies across Europe and the US are presented, providing readers with empirical insights into the articulation of citizen voices in different national, cultural and institutional contexts. Building bridges across media and communication studies, science and technology studies, environmental studies and urban planning studies, Citizen Voices also offers a range of different theories and research methodologies which foreground the role of communication processes in scientific and environmental governance
A reconstrução mediática das alterações climáticas
No full textEste capítulo analisa a representação mediática das alterações climáticas em Portugal. O estudo cobre quatro media impressos – Público, Correio da Manhã, Expresso e Visão – que foram seleccionados devido às suas posições no mercado das audiências e devido ao seu poder para marcar as agendas políticas e sociais. Centrando-se em vários ‘momentos críticos’ entre 1990 e 2007, o capítulo apresenta os resultados de uma análise de conteúdo de diferentes dimensões dos artigos jornalísticos. Para além disso, faz-se uma análise crítica do discurso desses meios impressos em quatro momentos críticos entre 2003 e 2007. A televisão é também objecto de análise com base numa amostra de emissões noticiosas da RTP1, 2:, SIC e TVI. Ao longo do capítulo, procura-se comparar a representação da mudança global do clima em diferentes media com o objectivo de compreender se existem discursos alternativos. Dada a sua importância para a definição do problema e para a formulação de opções de acção, as questões do risco e da responsabilidade merecem particular importância na análise da (re)construção mediática das alterações climáticas
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