The local impact of global climate change: reporting on landscape transformation and threatened identity in the English regional newspaper press
The local impact of global climate change: reporting on landscape transformation and threatened identity in the English regional newspaper press
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DOI：
10.1177/0963662510361416
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发表时间：
2011-09-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Rendell, Helen
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作者：
Brown, Tim;Budd, Lucy;Rendell, Helen
本文通过考察英国地区报纸在气候变化话语的转化和传播中的作用，有助于现有的对气候变化媒体表征的理解。与之前的报道不同，本文认为，这些报纸以尚未被充分描绘的方式塑造了公众对气候变化的理解。考虑到这一点，本文探讨了将全球气候变化转化为当地相关现象的方式。也就是说，它关注的是它的“驯化”。虽然我们承认这一过程有许多发生的方式，但我们特别注意那些强调当地景观特征被破坏、重要栖息地被改变以及“外来”物种到来的故事。这些故事的更广泛的意义被认为与长期以来关于景观对国家和地区身份概念的重要性的争论有关。
This paper contributes to extant understandings of media representations of climate change by examining the role of the English regional newspaper press in the transformation and dissemination of climate change discourse. Unlike previous accounts, this paper contends that such newspapers shape public understandings of climate change in ways that have yet to be adequately charted. With this in mind, this paper examines the ways in which global climate change is translated into a locally relevant phenomenon. That is, it focuses on its "domestication." Although we acknowledge that there are a number of ways in which this process occurs, specific attention is drawn to stories that highlight the destruction of local landscape features, the transformation of important habitats, and the arrival of "alien" species. The broader significance of such stories is considered in relation to long-standing debates concerning the importance of landscape to notions of national and regional identity.