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<p>Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption and a new wave political activism, the current situation has increasingly been framed as a climate <italic>crisis</italic>. This introductory essay maps these recent developments and elaborates the conceptual potentials and limitations of the “crisis” frame. It also briefly reviews the state of the art of media research and situates the contributions of the issue into this landscape.</p>
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Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption and a new wave political activism, the current situation has increasingly been framed as a climate crisis. This introductory essay maps these recent developments and elaborates the conceptual potentials and limitations of the “crisis” frame. It also briefly reviews the state of the art of media research and situates the contributions of the issue into this landscape.

Media and the Climate Crisis

Helsinki Institute for Social Science and Humanities

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

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Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of...

Media and the Climate Crisis

Online veröffentlicht: 06. Juli 2021

Seitenbereich: 1 - 19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/njms-2021-0001

Schlüsselwörter
climate change, climate crisis, media and communication research, conceptualisation, framing

© 2021 Risto Kunelius et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Media and the Climate Crisis

Online veröffentlicht: 06. Juli 2021

Seitenbereich: 1 - 19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/njms-2021-0001

Schlüsselwörterclimate change, climate crisis, media and communication research, conceptualisation, framing

© 2021 Risto Kunelius et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Schlüsselwörter
climate change, climate crisis, media and communication research, conceptualisation, framing