Sustainable media events? Production and discursive effects of staged global political media events in the area of climate change

• Main Author: Wessler, Hartmut
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: polar bear
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12740; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA6768?lang=de; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA6768?lang=en

The project investigates (a) how staged global political media events (i.e. the global climate summits) are produced, and (b) which discursive effects these events have on national climate debates in the media of five leading democratic countries around the world, namely the U.S., Germany, India, South Africa and Brazil. I. Formal and general content related categories 1. Formal variables: article-ID; coder-ID; title (main headline of the article); date of publication; media outlet (newspaper, magazine or news website in which the article was published); length of the article; format of the article (fact-based article, opinion-based article, interview, press review, stand-alone visual image as an independent article, letter to the editor, other); placement of the article (front page article or cover story, article inside the newspaper and magazine referenced on the front page, article inside the newspaper and magazine without reference on the front page); section of newspaper, magazine and news website; author of the article. 2. Content variables: article trigger (institutional events, unpremeditated (unplanned) events, communicative events, other event); UN Climate Change Conferences (COPs) reference; country references; international / transnational institutional references. II. Visual level 1. Formal variables: visual present; photo present; number of visual images; number of photos; visual image-ID, type of visual image (photograph, photomontage, chart, map or table, cartoon / caricature, official logo of COP, topical vignette by newspaper or magazine); source of visual image. 2. Visual framing (if the visual image is a photograph or photomontage): denotative level: institutional reference depicted in the photo; content of the photo: urban landscape, natural landscape (woods, mountains and/ or lake, plants and/ or grassland / meadow), ocean and/or ocean coast, snow, ice, glacier, desert or steppe, polar bear, other animals, transportation or conventional traffic, agriculture, conventional energy generation, ...