Study of the month: How to Promote Adaptive Coping with Climate Anxiety
The threats posed by climate change are enormous: extreme weather events, rising sea levels, accelerating species extinction and more dominate media coverage — and understandably cause fear. However, it is both important and very much possible to not become paralyzed by these fears, and instead learn to deal with such negative feelings and worries constructively. In […]
Vortrag: Medien in der Klimakrise
Der Journalismus vernachlässigt immer noch das Thema Klimakrise. Und wenn sie thematisiert wird, dann drohen Debatten in die Polarisierungsfalle zu geraten. An den Rändern des Berufsstands rumort es aber: viele jüngere Journalist:innen geben sich nicht länger mit einer passiven Vermittlung von Politikerstatements und Routineberichterstattung zum Klimawandel zufrieden. Transformativer Journalismus will die Gesellschaft kritisch und konstruktiv […]
Study of the Month: (Disruptive) Climate Protests and Social Media Polarization
Disruptive climate protests attract significantly higher engagement on social media—but also contribute to deeper polarization. This raises questions about how activist movements can—or should—design their actions and communicate their goals in polarized online environments. In our “Study of the Month” series, the blog team presents recent research relevant to climate communication and social media studies. […]
Decreasing Climate Media Coverage in the United States and Germany
Our dataset of climate media coverage in the United States and Germany reveals a worrying development. After a few years of elevated meda attention to climate change, the share of coverage dedicated to the topic is receding in most media in both countries. The following graphs provide some detail. Overall coverage of climate change is […]
Addressing Misconceptions About News Media Coverage of Climate Change
In two simple graphs, we address a number of myths about how news media cover climate change in Germany and the United States. Some people incorrectly assume that climate change (1) has been at the center of journalistic attention for a long time and that (2) this attention has been steadily increasing (3) uniformly across […]