A comparative analysis of the press coverage of the whaling conflict in Australia and Japan in 2005-2006 ...

• Main Author: Kudo, M
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University Of Tasmania 2023
• Subjects: Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/23228720.v1; https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/A_comparative_analysis_of_the_press_coverage_of_the_whaling_conflict_in_Australia_and_Japan_in_2005-2006/23228720/1

This study aims to shed light on the differences in the way in which an environmental issue is represented by the news media in Western and non-Western society. It also examines the degree to which the previous theories of media and environment, which have been primarily based on examination of domestic news coverage of environmental issues in Western society, can account for these differences. It employs a case study approach, which comparatively examines news texts of the whaling conflict drawn from three Australian newspapers and two Japanese newspapers. The tension between these two nations dramatically increased in 2005-2006 in the wake of Japan's decision to more than double the quota of its research whaling in the Southern Ocean, and the case study is designed to analyse the newspaper articles published during this period. The method employed in this study combines quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques to investigate four aspects of press coverage of the whaling conflict: fluctuation in the ...