[Ecolunch] EcoLunch: Stacy Rebich Hespanha, UCSB

[Josephine Rodriguez]

Hello, just a reminder...


Please join us this week for EcoLunch:

**Stacy Rebich Hespanha, UCSB*

Climate Change in U.S. News Media, 1969 - 2009: Visualizing themes and 
trends*

*Thursday, May 26, 12:15 PM*

Abstract:
News media play a fundamental role in forming public understanding of 
and attitudes about climate change.  Journalists and news organizations 
have been the subject of increasing scrutiny for their role in the 
American public's lack of engagement with and skepticism about climate 
issues.  One aim of my research is to paint a broad picture of how 
climate change has been represented in news media over the past several 
decades, and I use algorithmic text processing and visualization 
approaches to create representations of dominant themes in climate 
news.  I will present results of an analysis of approximately 90,000 
newspaper and magazine articles, TV and radio transcripts, and web 
blogs.  This presentation will focus on how dominant themes in climate 
change news have changed and developed over the history of communication 
about the issue.


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