Media Coverage of Environmental and Social Change in Northern Norway’s Coastal Regions: Main Themes in National and International News

IF 0.9 4区地球科学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Arctic Pub Date : 2021-06-08 DOI:10.14430/ARCTIC72474

B. P. Kaltenborn, Jenny F. Kaltenborn, B. Baczyńska, Just Kornfeldt, G. Hovelsrud

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Abstract

Media are important agents in the shaping of northern images. Media coverage influences public perceptions and policy governing resource and societal development. But popular media often provide incomplete and skewed representations compared to the documentation provided by scientific literature and the range of activities and interests present in a region. We conducted a topic analysis of media coverage of environmental and social change in the Helgeland, Lofoten, and Vesterålen regions in northern Norway and Svalbard in the high Arctic during approximately 2014 to 2018. Our findings show that popular media collectively contribute to an image of expanding economic development based on natural resource exploitation. However, this narrative is incomplete in terms of the societal dynamics linked to natural resource development as documented in the scientific literature and somewhat biased towards climate change, oil and gas exploitation, tourism, and marine harvesting. Emergency preparedness issues and economic transitions are under-communicated, and we conclude that the popular media narrative only partly represents an alternative to the government policy discourse on northern issues.

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挪威北部沿海地区环境和社会变化的媒体报道:国内和国际新闻的主题

媒介是塑造北方形象的重要因素。媒体报道影响公众对资源和社会发展的看法和政策。但与科学文献提供的文件以及一个地区的活动和兴趣范围相比，大众媒体往往提供了不完整和扭曲的表述。大约在2014年至2018年期间，我们对挪威北部的赫尔格兰、罗弗敦和维斯特伦地区以及北极高地的斯瓦尔巴群岛的环境和社会变化的媒体报道进行了主题分析。我们的研究结果表明，大众媒体共同促成了以自然资源开发为基础的扩大经济发展的形象。然而，就科学文献中记载的与自然资源开发相关的社会动态而言，这种说法是不完整的，并且在一定程度上偏向于气候变化、石油和天然气开采、旅游业和海洋捕捞。应急准备问题和经济转型的沟通不足，我们得出的结论是，大众媒体的叙事只是部分代表了政府关于北方问题的政策话语的替代方案。

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Arctic 地学-环境科学

CiteScore

2.30

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0.00%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： Arctic is a peer-reviewed, primary research journal that publishes the results of scientific research from all areas of Arctic scholarship. Original scholarly papers in the physical, social, and biological sciences, humanities, engineering, and technology are included, as are book reviews, commentaries, letters to the editor, and profiles of significant people, places, or events of northern interest