Framing Environmental Risks in the Baltic Sea: A News Media Analysis |
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Authors: | Anna Maria Jönsson |
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Institution: | Department of Culture and Communication, Södertörn University, 141 89, Huddinge, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Scientific complexity and uncertainty is a key challenge for environmental risk governance and to understand how risks are
framed and communicated is of utmost importance. The Baltic Sea ecosystem is stressed and exposed to different risks like
eutrophication, overfishing, and hazardous chemicals. Based on an analysis of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, this study discusses media representations of these risks. The results show that the reporting on the Baltic Sea has been
fairly stable since the beginning of the 1990s. Many articles acknowledge several risks, but eutrophication receives the most
attention and is also considered the biggest threat. Authorities, experts, organizations, and politicians are the dominating
actors, while citizens and industry representatives are more or less invisible. Eutrophication is not framed in terms of uncertainty
concerning the risk and consequences, but rather in terms of main causes. |
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Keywords: | Baltic Sea Complexity Framing News media Risk Uncertainty |
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