Klimatförändringarna i min morgontidning : röster från läsare, journalister och demokratins väktare
(2008)Human Ecology
- Abstract
- Through a survey and interviews, the author examines what reactions and thoughts some Swedish morning newspaper readers and journalists have about climate change and how it is presented in the newspapers. Their expectations and views on the role of the newspapers on the matter are compared. How the way in which climate change is presented in morning newspapers affects the citizens? possibilities to make well-informed decisions as consumers and voters is also discussed. The basis of the analytical perspective is the notion that the enormous socio-environmental problem of climate change is a problem of communication and fragmentation of knowledge. Also the right to information in a democracy is part of the foundation. The findings include,... (More)
- Through a survey and interviews, the author examines what reactions and thoughts some Swedish morning newspaper readers and journalists have about climate change and how it is presented in the newspapers. Their expectations and views on the role of the newspapers on the matter are compared. How the way in which climate change is presented in morning newspapers affects the citizens? possibilities to make well-informed decisions as consumers and voters is also discussed. The basis of the analytical perspective is the notion that the enormous socio-environmental problem of climate change is a problem of communication and fragmentation of knowledge. Also the right to information in a democracy is part of the foundation. The findings include, for example, that while readers primarily want climate knowledge from the news media, interviewed journalists suggest that, while they offer brief news, comments and debates, deeper understanding should come from other sources as complements for those particularly interested. (Less)
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- author
- Tegnér, Ulrika
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2008
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- climate change, media, journalism, news, democracy, information, human ecology, Environmental studies, Miljöstudier, Sociology, Sociologi, Press and communication sciences, Journalistik, media, kommunikation
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1366581
- date added to LUP
- 2009-03-02 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2009-03-24 00:00:00
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abstract = {{Through a survey and interviews, the author examines what reactions and thoughts some Swedish morning newspaper readers and journalists have about climate change and how it is presented in the newspapers. Their expectations and views on the role of the newspapers on the matter are compared. How the way in which climate change is presented in morning newspapers affects the citizens? possibilities to make well-informed decisions as consumers and voters is also discussed. The basis of the analytical perspective is the notion that the enormous socio-environmental problem of climate change is a problem of communication and fragmentation of knowledge. Also the right to information in a democracy is part of the foundation. The findings include, for example, that while readers primarily want climate knowledge from the news media, interviewed journalists suggest that, while they offer brief news, comments and debates, deeper understanding should come from other sources as complements for those particularly interested.}},
author = {{Tegnér, Ulrika}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Klimatförändringarna i min morgontidning : röster från läsare, journalister och demokratins väktare}},
year = {{2008}},
}