The US news media, polarization on climate change, and pathways to effective communication

T Bolsen, MA Shapiro - Environmental Communication, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The news media are a central source of information about climate change for most people.
Through frames, media transmit information that shape how people understand climate …

Politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news coverage

PS Hart, S Chinn, S Soroka - Science communication, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the level of politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news in US
newspapers and televised network news from March to May 2020. Using multiple computer …

[HTML][HTML] Hope, health, and the climate crisis

H Frumkin - The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Hope has been viewed since ancient times as a bedrock of human thriving, and
contemporary evidence suggests that hope is a determinant of health. However, the climate …

Politicization and polarization in climate change news content, 1985-2017

S Chinn, PS Hart, S Soroka - Science Communication, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite concerns about politicization and polarization in climate change news, previous
work has not been able to offer evidence concerning long-term trends. Using computer …

Beyond false balance: How interpretive journalism shapes media coverage of climate change

M Brüggemann, S Engesser - Global Environmental Change, 2017 - Elsevier
This study explores two pre-eminent features of transnational media coverage of climate
change: The framing of climate change as a harmful, human-induced risk and the way that …

Framing climate change: Economics, ideology, and uncertainty in American news media content from 1988 to 2014

DA Stecula, E Merkley - Frontiers in Communication, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The news media play an influential role in sha** public attitudes on a wide range of issues—
climate change included. As climate change has risen in salience, the average American is …

Is there any hope? How climate change news imagery and text influence audience emotions and support for climate mitigation policies

L Feldman, PS Hart - Risk Analysis, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Using a national sample, this study experimentally tests the effects of news visuals and texts
that emphasize either the causes and impacts of climate change or actions that can be taken …

Climate delay discourses present in global mainstream television coverage of the IPCC's 2021 report

J Painter, J Ettinger, D Holmes, L Loy, J Pinto… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Recent scholarship suggests that groups who oppose acting on climate change have shifted
their emphasis from attacking the credibility of climate science itself to questioning the …

Epistemic beliefs' role in promoting misperceptions and conspiracist ideation

RK Garrett, BE Weeks - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Widespread misperceptions undermine citizens' decision-making ability. Conclusions based
on falsehoods and conspiracy theories are by definition flawed. This article demonstrates …

The great divide: Understanding the role of media and other drivers of the partisan divide in public concern over climate change in the USA, 2001–2014

JT Carmichael, RJ Brulle, JK Huxster - Climatic change, 2017 - Springer
Recent scholarship has identified a large and growing divide on how Republicans and
Democrats view the issue of climate change. A number of these studies have suggested that …