Search for dissertations about: "climate change and media"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 38 swedish dissertations containing the words climate change and media.
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1. Climate change frames and frame formation : An analysis of climate change communication in the Swedish agricultural sector
Abstract : While previous research into understandings of climate change has usually examined general public perceptions and mainstream media representations, this thesis offers an audience-specific departure point by analysing climate change frames and frame formation in Swedish agriculture. The empirical material consists of Swedish farm magazines’ reporting on climate change, as well as eight focus group discussions among Swedish farmers on the topic of climate change and climate change information. READ MORE
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2. FASHIONABLE POLITICS The discursive construction of ethical consumerism in corporate communications, news media, and social media
Abstract : This thesis investigates the discursive construction of ethical consumerism – a notion that encompasses both ‘conscious’ consumption choices and responsible’ corporate activities – in mediated discourses about fashion and clothing consumption in Sweden. Drawing on the discourse-historical approach within critical discourse analysis, the study provides an empirical examination of discursive elements in corporate communications, newspapers, and social media, which construct the market as the best solution to social injustice and climate change. READ MORE
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3. Travelling through time : Students’ interpretation of evolutionary time in dynamic visualizations
Abstract : Evolutionary knowledge is important to understand and address contemporary challenges such as loss of biodiversity, climate change and antibiotic resistance. An important aspect that is considered to be a threshold concept in teaching and learning about evolution is the time it involves. READ MORE
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4. Towards a sustainable media system : Explorative studies of emerging media consumption trends and media processes for content production
Abstract : Understanding the process of transformational change currently taking place in the media industry is an urgent challenge for people working in the industry as well as for media consumers and other stakeholders. There is a great need to deepen our general knowledge when it comes to what the future media landscape will look like. READ MORE
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5. Communicating climate action : Combining action repertoires and linguistic repertoires in social movement message construction
Abstract : The climate crisis is one of the largest global challenges that humanity has ever faced. Despite the scientific consensus on the threat, action is not occurring on the pace or level needed to stave off the consequences. READ MORE