Conference
Media and the climate change policy

Anabela Carvalho, Department of Communication Sciences, University of Minho, President of the Science and Environment communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)

April 15th, 2009, 17:00, Keynes Hall, School of Economics Auditorium, University of Coimbra

Within the Observatory of Risk (OSIRIS)

 
Presentation

This paper seeks to reflect on the relation between the media discourses regarding climate change and political, civic and economic action. The aim will be to identify the main issues concerning the mediazation of climate change in countries such as the USA, United Kingdom and, especially, Portugal, and to analyze the possible implications of such a mediazation as what pertains to the knowledge of citizens, their attitudes and behaviour, as well as what concerns the political and economic dynamics regarding climate change.

 
Biographic Note

Anabela Carvalho (PhD, University College London) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, University of Minho where she has lectured disciplines such as International Information, Theories of Communication and Sociology of Information and Public Opinion, among others.
Her research focuses on the fields of communication science, political communication, analysis of discourse and sociology of environment. Her work has been published in journals such as Risk Analysis, Journalism Studies, Public Understanding of Science and in several collective books. She coordinated Communicating Climate Change: Discourses, Mediations and Perceptions, As Alterações Climáticas, os Media e os Cidadãos (in preparation) and thematic numbers of the journals Comunicação e Sociedadeand Environmental Communication (in print).
Anabela Carvalho is President of the Science and Environment Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and is part of the Editorial Board of the journal Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture.
Presently is Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Environmental Studies of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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