CET Lunch: Who sets the agenda? Mapping loud and quiet actors in the climate news
Welcome to our hybrid CET Lunch seminar with Janne Bjørgan, PhD Candidate at CET and Department of Information and Media Studies, UiB.
Main content
Our speaker will attend in person. Participants can sign up and tune in via stream, or turn up at CET where lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.
As concrete climate change mitigation policies become more and more important, so do the actors seeking to influence the climate change policies. A central arena for these actors’ communication strategies is the climate news. The news is a main source of information about climate change for policymakers and civil society alike, and most people consider the media as influential on policies and citizens. However, studies of sources, or actors, presence in the climate news are scarce.
With Norway as a case, this presentation looks at current research on actors in the climate news and presents a less known method of studying connections between actors: Discourse network analysis combines content analysis with social network analysis, making it possible to connect actors by the topics they discuss and their viewpoints on these topics.
About the speaker
Janne Bjørgan is a PhD candidate at CET and the Department of Infomedia, and is conducting interdisciplinary research on how media use and other channels of climate communication forms public and private stakeholders perception of climate urgency and their willingness to take action. Her supervisor is Associate Professor Silje Kristiansen.
