Disertaciones (May 2013)

Coverage of Climate Change in Spanish Digital Media. Study in the Framework of the Climate Change Summit in Cancun (2010) and Durban (2011)

  • Elias Suárez,
  • Carlos Arcila Calderón,
  • José Luis Piñuel Raigada

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 190 – 205

Abstract

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From previous work whose aim was to establish the hegemonic discourse of Spanish television media on climate change (CC), this article reports on a study that selected a corpus of media discourse in Spanish digital media, during the days of the last two international Summits on the CC (Cancun, 2010, Durban, 2011). We made a contet analysys with the goal of giving visibility to the features that concern the CC reference as a subject of public agenda. The analysis found little use of digital resources for the submission of information by the news media within the sample, correlations between the emitters of the contents and the issues raised in reference to the CC, and we propose to analyze the discourses that frame the type of information that is given to the reading public.

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