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Urgence climatique et développement en Afrique
L'Afrique représente 17 % de la population mondiale et est responsable d'à peine 4 % des émissions de gaz à effet de serre, à l'échelle de la planète. C'est aussi la région qui souffre le plus des conséquences du réchauffement climatique. Ce paradoxe tend à minorer le rôle que jouent les hommes et femmes de médias, en matière de sensibilisation, d'information et de communication sur le climat. Cet essai, qui va bien au-delà de l'implication des médias d'Afrique pour l'urgence climatique, aborde également les questions liées au développement durable : la place du livre et de la culture, la coopération internationale avec les enjeux de l'aide publique au développement, les interactions entre cette aide et le développement.
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Who Speaks for the Climate?
The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues – from news to entertainment – are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors. A dynamic mix of influences – from internal workings of mass media such as journalistic norms, to external political, economic, cultural and social factors – shape what becomes a climate 'story'. Providing a bridge between academic considerations and real world developments, this book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public make sense of media reporting on climate change as it explores 'who speaks for climate' and what effects this may have on the spectrum of possible responses to contemporary climate challenges.
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Straight up
In 2009, Rolling Stone named Joe Romm to its list of \"100 People Who Are Changing America.\" Romm is a climate expert, physicist, energy consultant, and former official in the Department of Energy. But it's his influential blog, one of the \"Top Fifteen Green Websites\" according to Time magazine, that's caught national attention. Climate change is far more urgent than people understand, Romm says, and traditional media, scientists, and politicians are missing the story.
Straight Up draws on Romm's most important posts to explain the dangers of and solutions to climate change that you won't find in newspapers, in journals, or on T.V. Compared to coverage of Jay-Z or the latest philandering politician, climate change makes up a pathetically small share of news reports. And when journalists do try to tackle this complex issue, they often lack the background to tell the full story. Despite the dearth of reporting, polls show that two in five Americans think the press is actually exaggerating the threat of climate change. That gives Big Oil, and others with a vested interest in the status quo, a huge opportunity to mislead the public.
Romm cuts through the misinformation and presents the truth about humanity's most dire threat. His analysis is based on sophisticated knowledge of renewable technologies, climate impacts, and government policy, written in a style everyone can understand. Romm shows how a 20 percent reduction in global emissions over the next quarter century could improve the economy; how we can replace most coal and with what technologies; why Sarah Palin wears a polar bear pin; and why controversial, emerging technologies like biochar have to be part of the solution.
The ultimate solution, Romm argues, is bigger than any individual technology: it's citizen action. Without public pressure, Washington and industry don't budge. With it, our grandkids might just have a habitable place to live.
\"The Web's most influential climate-change blogger\" and \"Hero of the Environment 2009\"
—Time Magazine
\"I trust Joe Romm on climate.\"
—Paul Krugman, New York Times
\"America's fiercest climate-change activist-blogger\" and one of \"The 100 People Who Are Changing America\"
— Rolling Stone
\"One of the most influential energy and environmental policy makers in the Obama era\"
— U.S. News & World Report
\"The indispensable blog\"
—Thomas Friedman, New York Times
\"One of the most influential energy and environmental policy makers in the Obama era\"
— U.S. News & World Report
\"The indispensable blog\"
—Thomas Friedman, New York Times
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The mediated climate : how journalists, big tech, and activists are vying for our future
\"Few contemporary issues have been as riddled with claims of misinformation and skewed coverage as climate change. Critics contend that journalism has, until very recently, failed to cover the topic with an urgency that can best inform and mobilize the public. Journalists are now devoting more resources to the topic and moving away from the traditional \"balanced\" approach that would give climate denialists a voice. However, coverage of climate change is also shaped and distorted by the current networked-era information crisis. In investigating the impact of online platforms and a variety of corporate and political interests, Adrienne Russell argues that we need to think about the information and climate crises together to understand the conditions under which journalism operates and the power dynamics that shape public discourse on the subject. In The Mediated Climate, Russell tells the history of how the boundaries between journalism, public relations, and advocacy have become blurred around the subject of climate change. She traces the evolution of the tools and practices available to various industries that trade in disinformation and how climate journalists have adapted to meet the challenge presented by widespread misinformation. She also considers how journalism's role in shaping a public has been replaced by the digital public as constructed by data and algorithms. Finally, based on her interviews with journalists and activists, Russell looks at how recent mobilizations fight against misinformation, and proposes measures to protect our information infrastructures\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Comparing Climate Change Coverage in Canadian English- and French-Language Print Media: Environmental Values, Media Cultures, and the Narration of Global Warming
This article compares how climate change is presented in English- and French-language print media in Canada. In recent years, climate change has become an increasingly divisive issue, with the media playing a central role in the promotion of competing claims and narratives in the public sphere. Using concepts from environmental sociology and the sociology of journalism, we examine content from six English- and two French-language newspapers from 2007–2008 (N=2,249), and find significant evidence of both convergence and divergence across the language divide. Among the most significant findings are differences in how complexity is handled: English outlets present diverse coverage that is highly compartmentalized, while the French newspapers present a narrower range of coverage but with thematically richer articles that better link climate change issues to the realms of culture, politics, and economy.
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Bias in reporting on climate change
\"This insightful book explores bias in reporting on climate change, helping students think critically about where their news comes from\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Media's social construction of environmental issues: focus on global warming - a comparative study
Global warming has been a well recognized environmental issue in the United States for the past ten years, even though scientists had identified it as a potential problem years before in 1896. We find debate about the issue in the United States media coverage while controversy among the majority of scientists is rare. The role that media plays in constructing the norms and ideas in society is researched to understand how they socially construct global warming and other environmental issues. To identify if the U.S. Media presents a biased view of global warming, the following are discussed (1) the theoretical perspective of media and the environment; (2) scientific overview and history of global warming; (3) media coverage of global warming, and (4) research findings from the content analysis of three countries' newspaper articles and two international scientific journals produced in 2000 with comparison of these countries economies, industries, and environments. In conclusion, our research demonstrates that the U.S. with differing industries, predominantly dominated by the fossil fuel industry, in comparison to New Zealand and Finland has a significant impact on the media coverage of global warming. The U.S's media states that global warming is controversial and theoretical, yet the other two countries portray the story that is commonly found in the international scientific journals. Therefore, media, acting as one driving force, is providing citizens with piecemeal information that is necessary to assess the social, environmental and political conditions of the country and world.
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