Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada : A network approach
In this paper, we examine the centrality of policy actors and moral justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada from 2011?2015. We take a network approach on the media debates by analysing relations between the actors and justifications, using discourse network ana...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/328490 2024-01-07T09:40:47+01:00 Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada : A network approach Kukkonen, Anna Stoddart, Mark CJ Ylä-Anttila, Tuomas Academic Disciplines of the Faculty of Social Sciences Political Science Sociology Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) 2021-03-30T07:24:01Z 15 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/328490 eng eng SAGE Publications Ltd STM 10.1177/0001699319890902 The data for this research were collected as a part of the International Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks research effort initiated by Jeffrey Broadbent. We would like to thank Jim Conley, Randle Hart, Markku Lonkila, Laurent Th?venot, the Acta Sociologica editorial team and the four anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by the Kone Foundation (Grant Nos. 085319 and 088557), Academy of Finland (Grant No. 32078) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Grant No. 430-2011-0093). Kukkonen , A , Stoddart , M CJ & Ylä-Anttila , T 2021 , ' Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada : A network approach ' , Acta Sociologica , vol. 64 , no. 1 , 0001699319890902 , pp. 103-117 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699319890902 RIS: urn:838616C5C292C225FDB00FA557A0976C ORCID: /0000-0002-6908-3495/work/91492576 ORCID: /0000-0002-1178-5873/work/91493568 89615bcf-88cc-4dec-a519-d22d8223c00d http://hdl.handle.net/10138/328490 000523874600001 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 5141 Sociology The Arctic climate change justification theory communication power discourse network analysis media analysis Finland Canada POLICY REPRESENTATIONS ACCESS Article publishedVersion 2021 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:01:20Z In this paper, we examine the centrality of policy actors and moral justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada from 2011?2015. We take a network approach on the media debates by analysing relations between the actors and justifications, using discourse network analysis on a dataset of 745 statements from four newspapers. We find that in both countries, governments and universities are the most central actors, whereas business actors are the least central. Justifications that value environmental sustainability and scientific knowledge are most central and used across actor types. However, ecological justifications are sometimes in conflict with market justifications. Government actors emphasize new economic possibilities in the Arctic whereas environmental organizations demand greater protection of the vulnerable Arctic. Ecological justifications and justifications that value international cooperation are more central in the Finnish debate, whereas justifications valuing sustainability and science, as well as those valuing national sovereignty, are more central in the Canadian debate. We conclude that in addition to the centrality of specific policy actors in media debates, the use of different types of moral justifications also reflects political power in the media sphere. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Arctic Canada Acta Sociologica 64 1 103 117 |
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In this paper, we examine the centrality of policy actors and moral justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada from 2011?2015. We take a network approach on the media debates by analysing relations between the actors and justifications, using discourse network analysis on a dataset of 745 statements from four newspapers. We find that in both countries, governments and universities are the most central actors, whereas business actors are the least central. Justifications that value environmental sustainability and scientific knowledge are most central and used across actor types. However, ecological justifications are sometimes in conflict with market justifications. Government actors emphasize new economic possibilities in the Arctic whereas environmental organizations demand greater protection of the vulnerable Arctic. Ecological justifications and justifications that value international cooperation are more central in the Finnish debate, whereas justifications valuing sustainability and science, as well as those valuing national sovereignty, are more central in the Canadian debate. We conclude that in addition to the centrality of specific policy actors in media debates, the use of different types of moral justifications also reflects political power in the media sphere. Peer reviewed |
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Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada : A network approach |
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Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada : A network approach |
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Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada : A network approach |
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Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada : A network approach |
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Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada : A network approach |
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actors and justifications in media debates on arctic climate change in finland and canada : a network approach |
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10.1177/0001699319890902 The data for this research were collected as a part of the International Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks research effort initiated by Jeffrey Broadbent. We would like to thank Jim Conley, Randle Hart, Markku Lonkila, Laurent Th?venot, the Acta Sociologica editorial team and the four anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by the Kone Foundation (Grant Nos. 085319 and 088557), Academy of Finland (Grant No. 32078) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Grant No. 430-2011-0093). Kukkonen , A , Stoddart , M CJ & Ylä-Anttila , T 2021 , ' Actors and justifications in media debates on Arctic climate change in Finland and Canada : A network approach ' , Acta Sociologica , vol. 64 , no. 1 , 0001699319890902 , pp. 103-117 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699319890902 RIS: urn:838616C5C292C225FDB00FA557A0976C ORCID: /0000-0002-6908-3495/work/91492576 ORCID: /0000-0002-1178-5873/work/91493568 89615bcf-88cc-4dec-a519-d22d8223c00d http://hdl.handle.net/10138/328490 000523874600001 |
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