The images of youth climate mobilizations in the press and television in Spain
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https://doi.org/10.32991/2237-2717.2020v10i3.p108-149Keywords:
climate change, youth mobilizations, Greta Thunberg, communication, imagesAbstract
The 2019 climate mobilizations have been a novelty in climate action. A new generation of adolescents and young people have managed to draw the attention of society to the challenge of climate change, requiring government leaders to take sufficient measures to meet the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, pointing to science as a reference. This historic milestone has had Greta Thunberg as the face of the Fridays For Future student movement along with other organizations. The general objective of this article is to study the representation offered by the media of environmental activism carried out by young people in the face of the climate emergency. The methodology used has been the content analysis on television and in the press based on a structural sampling. Among the effects of youth mobilizations, supported by adult citizenship, we can find: an unprecedented volume of citizen movements for climate at global, European and national scale; the identification of the environmental issue by a whole generation; and to have achieved one of its objectives: the climate emergency declared institutionally.
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R. Entman, “Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractuired Paradigm”. Journal of Communication 41 (1993), 51-58.
R. Fernández-Reyes, “Crónica de la cobertura del cambio climático en prensa de 2019”. Disponible en https://recambiacambioclimatico.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/16.-resumen-2019.pdf
R. Fernández-Reyes, “Greta cataliza la imagen del movimiento internacional” en EFEverde (15 de marzo de 2019). Disponible en https://www.efeverde.com/blog/creadoresdeopinion/greta-imagen-movimiento-internacional/
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S. Murray, “Framing a Climate Crisis: A descriptive framing analysis of how Greta Thunberg inspired the masses to take to the streets” (Dissertation, Uppsala University, 2020). Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-402643
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Ted MacDonald “How broadcast TV networks covered climate change in 2019” (27 de febrero de 2020). Disponible en https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2019
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Z. Bergmann & R. Ossewaarde, “Youth climate activists meet environmental governance: ageist depictions of the FFF movement and Greta Thunberg in German newspaper coverage”, Journal of Multicultural Discourses (2020).
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2020-12-17
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Teso Alonso, M. G., & Fernández-Reyes, R. (2020). The images of youth climate mobilizations in the press and television in Spain. Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana Y Caribeña (HALAC) Revista De La Solcha, 10(3), 108–149. https://doi.org/10.32991/2237-2717.2020v10i3.p108-149
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