ECOLA_Environmental Communication in Latin America: Innovations and Challenges of Climate Reporting

ECOLA_拉丁美洲环境传播：气候报告的创新与挑战

• 批准号: EP/Z000963/1
• 负责人: Claudia Sarmento
• 金额: $ 23.15万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FZ000963%2F1
• 关键词: ECOLA_Environmental; Communication; Latin; America; Innovations

The role of media is key to shape public understanding of humans' impact on the planet, raising awareness of environmental issues and motivating social and policy actions to tackle them. Within the field of environmental communication, and more specifically climate change communication, news media coverage has received an increasing amount of scholarly attention. However, most of the studies that delve into the practices, effects, impediments, and successful strategies to frame content about the environment are centered on the Global North. In contrast, this research (acronym ECOLA) is focused on Latin America, home to one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet and a region particularly susceptible to the impact of climate change. Amid the widespread threat of misinformation in countries such as Brazil, this study moves beyond traditional news media enquiries to investigate how a broader range of communicators across different media and national contexts, such as reporters, photojournalists, documentary filmmakers and community leaders, are disseminating mediated discourses about the environment that can push for solutions. Understanding the debates raised by a diverse group o regional media actors is essential to build connections between global researchers, media producers and other stakeholders interested in strategic communication to facilitate society's engagement with ecological problems. Environmental communication is a growing field of research that bridges natural sciences and the humanities, crossing different disciplines such as media, journalism, cultural, social movements and urban studies. ECOLA aims to expand the interdisciplinary knowledge of the field by critically analysing the landscape and the dynamics of environmental communication in an underrepresented region and beyond large media corporations.The main research questions address the type of news stories that Latin American producers are disseminating online to inform society about ecological crises beyond "breaking news"; the extent to which they include the voices of those who are among the most affected and the main challenges of environmental coverage in a regional context of economic and political instability. The project will use semi-structured interviews with journalists and other environmental communicators across Latin America, to establish their views on their innovative practices, their perceived role, the responses from the audiences and the challenges to inform society about climate change. Their accounts will help to identify unifying aspects of their practices and to shed light on transnation obstacles such as anti-enviromental discourses driven by misinformation, political polarisation and/or economic pressure. Interviews will be combined with participant observation in Brazil and analysis of the coverage of climate change, using seminal case studies.

媒体的作用是塑造公众对人类对地球的影响的理解，提高对环境问题的认识，并推动采取社会和政策行动来解决这些问题的关键。在环境传播领域，特别是气候变化传播领域，新闻媒体报道受到了越来越多的学术关注。然而，大多数深入研究实践、影响、障碍和成功策略来构建环境内容的研究都集中在全球北方。相比之下，这项研究（ECOLA）的重点是拉丁美洲，这里拥有地球上最多样化的生态系统之一，也是一个特别容易受到气候变化影响的地区。在巴西等国普遍存在的错误信息威胁中，本研究超越了传统的新闻媒体调查，调查了跨越不同媒体和国家背景的更广泛的传播者，如记者、摄影记者、纪录片制片人和社区领袖，如何传播有关环境的媒介话语，从而推动解决方案。了解不同区域媒体行动者群体提出的辩论，对于在全球研究人员、媒体制作人和其他对战略传播感兴趣的利益攸关方之间建立联系，以促进社会参与生态问题至关重要。环境传播是一个不断发展的研究领域，它将自然科学和人文科学连接起来，跨越不同的学科，如媒体、新闻、文化、社会运动和城市研究。ECOLA旨在通过批判性地分析代表性不足的地区和大型媒体公司之外的环境传播的景观和动态，扩大该领域的跨学科知识。主要研究问题涉及拉丁美洲生产者在网上传播的新闻故事类型，以告知社会关于“突发新闻”之外的生态危机；它们在多大程度上包括受影响最严重的人的声音，以及在经济和政治不稳定的区域背景下环境报道的主要挑战。该项目将对拉丁美洲各地的记者和其他环境传播者进行半结构化采访，以确定他们对自己的创新实践、他们的角色认知、受众的反应以及向社会通报气候变化所面临的挑战的看法。他们的叙述将有助于确定其实践的统一方面，并阐明跨国障碍，如由错误信息、政治两极分化和/或经济压力驱动的反环境话语。访谈将结合参与者在巴西的观察和分析气候变化的覆盖范围，使用开创性的案例研究。