Cold War on a Hot Issue: Framing Climate Change in Russian and Swedish Media
(2024) MKVM13 20241Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication and Media
- Abstract
- Environmental journalism is crucial to the global understanding of the impact that climate change and other environmental disasters have on billions of people globally. Public and policymakers' understanding of climate change is strongly influenced by the media. The purpose of the thesis is to provide an analysis of how UN Conferences of Parties, COP28 in Dubai in 2023, were covered in Russian and Swedish print newspapers. The focus of the study was on the nationalization of a global political climate event. One Swedish newspaper and two Russian newspapers were selected for the study, with a corpus of 36 articles. The main research question of the thesis is To what extent is climate change as transnational issue nationalized in news... (More)
- Environmental journalism is crucial to the global understanding of the impact that climate change and other environmental disasters have on billions of people globally. Public and policymakers' understanding of climate change is strongly influenced by the media. The purpose of the thesis is to provide an analysis of how UN Conferences of Parties, COP28 in Dubai in 2023, were covered in Russian and Swedish print newspapers. The focus of the study was on the nationalization of a global political climate event. One Swedish newspaper and two Russian newspapers were selected for the study, with a corpus of 36 articles. The main research question of the thesis is To what extent is climate change as transnational issue nationalized in news coverage by the selected newspapers? The main research question is unpacked with help of two secondary research questions. To answer the research questions, qualitative framing analysis was conducted. For each country, one major and one minor (or secondary) climate-related news frames were found: Conflict frame and Fear (Sweden); Conflict frame and Failure of the green agenda (Russia). The conclusion is that the three newspapers use the same storytelling techniques of protagonist vs antagonist to localize global climate-related news. The dominant frame of conflict serves two different purposes depending on the country. The thesis argues that the framing process is mediated by political, ideological, and societal factors. In the case of a political climate-related event (COP28), the findings demonstrate the high level of politicization of the climate agenda. The results also show the high level of contradictions between Western (Sweden) and Eastern (Russia) countries in terms of climate policy, mitigation, and adaptation. The analysis of two different media coverages of one climate-related event partly demonstrates an analogy with Cold War rhetoric of the mid-20th century (Less)
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- Aniskov, Evgenii LU
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- course
- MKVM13 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- : COP28, climate change, environmental journalism, media framing, Russian media, Swedish media
- language
- English
- id
- 9151578
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abstract = {{Environmental journalism is crucial to the global understanding of the impact that climate change and other environmental disasters have on billions of people globally. Public and policymakers' understanding of climate change is strongly influenced by the media. The purpose of the thesis is to provide an analysis of how UN Conferences of Parties, COP28 in Dubai in 2023, were covered in Russian and Swedish print newspapers. The focus of the study was on the nationalization of a global political climate event. One Swedish newspaper and two Russian newspapers were selected for the study, with a corpus of 36 articles. The main research question of the thesis is To what extent is climate change as transnational issue nationalized in news coverage by the selected newspapers? The main research question is unpacked with help of two secondary research questions. To answer the research questions, qualitative framing analysis was conducted. For each country, one major and one minor (or secondary) climate-related news frames were found: Conflict frame and Fear (Sweden); Conflict frame and Failure of the green agenda (Russia). The conclusion is that the three newspapers use the same storytelling techniques of protagonist vs antagonist to localize global climate-related news. The dominant frame of conflict serves two different purposes depending on the country. The thesis argues that the framing process is mediated by political, ideological, and societal factors. In the case of a political climate-related event (COP28), the findings demonstrate the high level of politicization of the climate agenda. The results also show the high level of contradictions between Western (Sweden) and Eastern (Russia) countries in terms of climate policy, mitigation, and adaptation. The analysis of two different media coverages of one climate-related event partly demonstrates an analogy with Cold War rhetoric of the mid-20th century}},
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language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Cold War on a Hot Issue: Framing Climate Change in Russian and Swedish Media}},
year = {{2024}},
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