Public Enemy No. 1
Understanding Media Representations of Outlier Views on Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maxwell Boykoff (0000-0002-7474-2387, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author), Maxwell T Boykoff (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 796-817 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764213476846 |
| OpenAlex | W2126320607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
| References cited | 29 |
Outlier voices-particularly those views often dubbed climate "skeptics," "denialists," or "contrarians"-have gained prominence and traction in mass media over time through a mix of internal workings such as journalistic norms, institutional values and practices, and external political economic, cultural, and social factors. In this context, the article explores how and why these actors-through varied interventions and actions-garner disproportionate visibility in the public arena via mass media. It also examines how media content producers grapple with ways to represent claims makers, as well as their claims, so that they clarify rather than confuse these critical issues. To the extent that mass media misrepresent and/or gratuitously cover these outlier views, they contribute to ongoing illusory, misleading, and counterproductive debates within the public and policy communities, and poorly serve the collective public. Furthermore, working through mass media outlets, these outlier interventions demonstrate themselves to be (at times deliberately) detrimental to efforts seeking to enlarge rather than constrict the spectrum of possibility for varied forms of climate action
Action (physics) · Collective action · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Mass media · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Skepticism · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
The legacy of climategate
Use of science in British newspapers’ narratives of climate change
The changing uses of accuracy in science communication
Invisible While in Plain Sight
Climate and environmental science denial
Climate change in the UK press
Exploratory Geovisualization of the Character and Distribution of American Climate Change Beliefs
“Those on the Right Take Chloroquine”
The Moderating Role of Emotion
El periodismo especializado ante el obstruccionismo climático. El caso de Maldito Clima
Media, politics, and climate change
Image Themes and Frames in US Print News Stories about Climate Change
Global Climate Talks from Failure to Cooperation and Hope
Going Global
Frequent but Accurate
“We’re Going Under”
Framing the Circular Bioeconomy in Ireland’s Broadsheet Media, 2004–2019
Examining the Impact of Expert Voices
Persistence of Scepticism in Media Reporting on Climate Change
How Grammatical Choice Shapes Media Representations of Climate (Un)certainty
Major Media Outlets and Climate Change Action
TikTok y cambio climático
Social futures of global climate change
Political economy, media, and climate change
Bias vs. Bias
Who Prevails in the Visual Framing Contest about the United Nations Climate Change Conferences
Evaluating climate change behaviors and concern in the family context
Forcing a Deterministic Frame on Probabilistic Phenomena
Mapping the climate sceptical blogosphere
Reporting on climate change
Seepage
A blind expert test of contrarian claims about climate data
The quiet opposition
Orchestration of perspectives in televised climate change debates
Climate Change SOS
Partisan differences in the relationship between newspaper coverage and concern over global warming
Does It Matter if the Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming Is 97% or 99.99
Examining differences in public opinion on climate change between college students in China and the USA
Discursive Dissonance in Socioecological Theatre
Creative (Climate) Communications
Climate Action and Native Advertising
Polar facts in the age of polarization
Lack of 'common sense' in the climate change debate
Persecuted and Paralysed
Climate Change Scepticism
Labeling opinions in the climate debate
Multiple criteria analysis of citizens’ information and trust in climate change actions
Representation of climate change consequences in British newspapers
Between Consensus and Denial
El discurso ausente
Wise contrarians
The spillover of race and racial attitudes into public opinion about climate change
The triangular relationship between public concern for environmental issues, policy output, and media attention
Canadian news media and the cultural dynamics of multilevel climate governance
Process skeptical populist framing of climate change in right-leaning media
Post-decisional logics of inaction
Trust in Scientists on Climate Change and Vaccines
The racial fix and environmental state formation
From Non-Believer to Believer
News Media Trends in the Framing of Immigration and Crime, 1990-2013
Cultural Boundaries of Science
We Speak for the Trees
Lost in translation? United States television news coverage of anthropogenic climate change, 1995–2004
Is Anyone Responsible?
Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate
Risks of communication
Cultural Circuits of Climate Change in U.K. Broadsheet Newspapers, 1985–2003
American Risk Perceptions
Creating a Climate for Change
Why We Disagree about Climate Change
Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality
Ye Olde Hot Aire’
Science and public policy
Deliberating Over Britain's Nuclear Waste
Balance as bias
Defeating Kyoto
Climate change and journalistic norms
Ideological cultures and media discourses on scientific knowledge
Cultural cognition of scientific consensus
The organisation of denial
Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem
Scientific Certainty Argumentation Methods (SCAMs)
| Unique citing works | 60 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |