New Publication: Beyond false balance

Finally, the article „Beyond false balance: How interpretive journalism shapes media coverage of climate change” is available online. The article is an outcome of our project “Framing Climate Change” and was published by the journal Global Environmental Change.
Erste Ergebnisse aus der Tagebuchstudie präsentiert

Auf der European Communication Conference in Prag haben wir erste Ergebnisse aus der Tagebuchstudie des Projekts “Down to Earth” präsentiert. Für den Vortrag wurden die Angaben zu den Gesprächen der 41 Teilnehmer über den Klimawandel analysiert, die sie im Zeitraum der Klimakonferenz in Paris 2015 geführt hatten.
Down to Earth results featured in “Communication Director”

Results from our Down to Earth study have been featured in an article about the communication of international climate conferences. Imke Hoppe was interviewed as a spokesperson of our team by editor Jan Wisniewski from the magazine “Communication Director” and talked about the public’s perception of the COP21. Unfortunately, the article is not available for […]
New working paper: Climate change in the media

Our research group has published a new working paper which summarizes research on climate change in the media. The questions addressed are how media coverage of climate change contributes to the social construction of climate change, what kind of patterns can be found in the climate change debate and what effects climate change coverage has […]
First part of the Online Media Monitor online!

We are proud to announce the release of the first part of our monitor: a tool which counts all tweets related to climate change on a daily base, lists the domains most linked to in context with climate change, and shows yesterday’s most retweeted climate change tweet. Check out the tool here. The Online Media […]
“The End of the Beginning” – Booklet with Blog Posts

Download booklet “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Winston Churchill Quite a few commentators of the results of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (November/December 2015) have evoked this quote from Winston Churchill. It seems that, […]
First Working Paper: Before the COP 21

How do German citizens perceive climate change? What do they know about climate politics? And how do they evaluate national and international efforts against climate change? Within the framework of our “Down to Earth” study, we aimed to answer these and further questions with an online survey with more than 2000 persons, conducted in Germany […]
Two weeks on Twitter: COP21, smoking heads and tweets from outer space

When 196 nations met in Paris for COP21, the event naturally attracted global attention. It also fostered transnational debates on Twitter. The Internet and more specifically social media enable many-to-many communication without the limitations of physically doing so, e.g having to convene in one geographical location. I wanted to find out the extent to which COP21 […]
Civil Society Actors in the #Climatechange Debate

During the past two weeks of the UN summit, we have read about the problems that civil society actors have faced in making their voices heard. Following on from the November 13 Paris terror attacks protests and other public events were banned in the city. Under these circumstances, social media represent a means through which […]
Lost on the Road to Paris? The Framing of a 2 degree warming limit 2009-2014

As the climate negotiations in Paris near their final rounds, some might be surprised by rather contradictory developments, which relate to the much discussed 2 degree threshold. This limit aims to keep warming within 2°C of the pre-industrial average.While the emissions reduction pledges put forward by the countries ahead of COP 21 in Paris were not sufficiently ambitious to […]