"How am I supposed to do this?": Navigating the use of visuals in the production of digital climate change journalism

“我该怎么做？”：在数字气候变化新闻制作中引导视觉效果的使用

• 批准号: 2242463
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2242463
• 关键词: How; am; supposed; do; Navigating

The media is critical for public engagement with climate change, and an area receiving increasing academic attention through the concept of framing. However, there are two key limitations to this work.First, the majority of scholarly literature focuses on traditional media, despite the increasing diversity of news sources, particularly 'digital-born' new media organisations. These are seeing rapid audience growth. As well as being sites of climate journalistic innovation, they are employing more environment journalists (bucking the trend for journalism redundancies). Digital-born environment news organisations are thus essential collaborators in understanding how to engage people more effectively with climate change. Second, academic literature is limited in scope. If the communication cycle is imagined as an ongoing loop (Hall 1973), there are three interest points: production (how news is created), content (the news 'artefact') and consumption (engagement with content). The literature is dominated by content studies (Nisbet, 2009), with some focus on audience response (O'Neill and Smith, 2014). Work on news production is extremely limited. This is problematic, as neither content nor audience studies address how and why certain frames exist, and not others. There is huge potential for climate engagement impact here, since certain framings of climate news (e.g. as a health issue) are much more engaging than others (e.g. as a disputed scientific issue; O'Neill et al. 2015): yet currently, less engaging frames dominate climate news (O'Neill 2013).This PhD project will address these two significant research gaps, co-producing research with leading digital-born climate news organisations, using frame theory, to empirically study "frame-building" in climate news production. The project proposes interdisciplinary research drawing on geography, environmental social science, psychology, politics, and media and journalism studies.

媒体对于公众参与气候变化至关重要，也是一个通过框架概念获得越来越多学术关注的领域。然而，这项工作有两个关键限制。首先，尽管新闻来源日益多样化，特别是“数字诞生”的新媒体组织，但大多数学术文献都集中在传统媒体上。这些网站的观众数量正在快速增长。除了作为气候新闻创新的场所，它们还雇佣了更多的环境记者(与新闻业裁员的趋势背道而驰)。因此，数字诞生的环境新闻组织在理解如何更有效地让人们参与气候变化方面是必不可少的合作者。第二，学术文献的范围有限。如果将传播周期想象为一个持续的循环(Hall 1973)，则有三个兴趣点：生产(新闻是如何创建的)、内容(新闻‘人工制品’)和消费(与内容的接触)。这些文献以内容研究为主(Nisbet，2009)，一些关注观众反应(O‘Neill和Smith，2014)。新闻制作方面的工作极其有限。这是有问题的，因为内容和受众研究都不会解决某些框架如何存在以及存在的原因，而不是其他框架。气候参与的影响在这里有巨大的潜力，因为某些气候新闻框架(例如，作为健康问题)比其他框架更具吸引力(例如，作为有争议的科学问题；O‘Neill等人)。然而，目前，不那么吸引人的框架主导了气候新闻(O‘Neill，2013)。这个博士项目将解决这两个重要的研究空白，与领先的数字诞生的气候新闻组织共同制作研究，使用框架理论，对气候新闻生产中的“框架构建”进行实证研究。该项目建议利用地理学、环境社会科学、心理学、政治学、媒体和新闻学等学科进行跨学科研究。