1st Edition

Climate Change, Politics and the Press in Ireland

By David Robbins Copyright 2019
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

148 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Media coverage of climate change has attracted much scholarly attention because the extent of such coverage has an agenda-setting effect and because the ways in which the coverage is framed can influence public perception of and engagement with the issue. However, certain gaps in our understanding of the processes whereby such coverage is produced remain. The competition among strategic actors to... Read more

List of Figures



List of Tables



Foreword







  1. Introduction






  2. Climate change as a complex social problem






  3. The media and climate change






  4. Media coverage of climate change in Ireland






  5. Ministers, handlers and hacks






  6. Communicating climate change in a new media environment




Index

Biography

David Robbins is an assistant professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University, Ireland. He has over 25 years of experience in national print and broadcast media as a reporter, editor, and columnist.