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Development of new mass spectrometry analysis for hydrothermal reactions
内容の要約広島大学(Hiroshima University)博士(工学)Doctor of Engineeringdoctora
Reproducing the politics of climate change: A study of Thai newspaper reporting
This thesis aims to investigate the news reporting of climate change issues in three
Thai newspapers, examining in particular the part played by journalistic practices in their
representation. Key concepts from theories of risk society and critical approaches to news
production are employed to formulate the conceptual framework. In empirical terms, two
methods are employed to gather and interpret evidence.
Specifically, a textual analysis is employed to initially identify and assess how
climate change issues were constructed in the three selected newspapers. It helps to
document how journalistic values, newsworthiness and news narratives work to reproduce
climate change as a global agenda. The findings interpret evidence that the officials and their
claims dominate news related to climate change. These primary-definers exploit climate
change issues to support the nationalist arguments related to national energy security, while
environmentalists de-legitimize coal-fired power plant investment with climate change
issues. The findings confirm economic and conflict framing in the news coverage.
Next, semi-structured interviews with journalists and news sources produced insights
into the newsgathering processes. Evidence confirms that removing environmental news
beats from the structure of newsgathering, the so-called the news net, sustains the power of
institutional sources over environmental news agendas. The scarcity of skilled environmental
journalists who are keen on environmental politics in Thailand fundamentally intensifies
environmental frame-blindness, usual source dependency, and polarisation in newsrooms.
This results in dominating capital growth news frames and dominated environmental news
frames. These circumstances strengthen the position of the officials and resourceful
organisations as the primary-definers in news related to climate change.
The thesis advances the central argument that journalistic practice sustains the
definitional power of national officials regarding climate change politics in Thailand.
Specifically, the selected newspapers report that reducing national emissions and solving
climate change are priority issues, yet in actual fact the risks associated with climate change
do not receive sufficient coverage. It is shown that by prioritising other types of
environmental news, particularly around financial investment and legal issues, this news
coverage fails to contribute to public understanding of sustainable development to an
adequate exten
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