{"id":46742,"date":"2017-09-20T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46742"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:12","slug":"good-putting-hurricanes-and-climate-change-into-the-same-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/good-putting-hurricanes-and-climate-change-into-the-same-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD: Putting hurricanes and climate change into the same frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Good, an associate professor in Communications, Popular Culture and Film, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2017\/09\/18\/putting-hurricanes-and-climate-change-into-the-same-frame.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote a piece published in the Toronto Star<\/a> about her analysis of media coverage of recent\u00a0hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Good writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>I have analyzed two weeks of broadcast news stories that appeared on America\u2019s seven largest TV networks as well as Canada\u2019s CTV network. In just over 1,500 stories about hurricanes, \u201cTrump\u201d was discussed in 907 of those stories (or about 60 per cent), while \u201cbusiness\u201d was discussed in 572 of those stories (or about 38 per cent).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cClimate change\u201d was discussed in just 79 of the hurricane stories \u2014 or about five per cent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In his seminal 2010 paper \u201cWhy It Matters How We Frame the Environment,\u201d published in the journal Environmental Communication, the American linguist and philosopher George Lakoff offered that the world is made up of frames. \u201cFraming\u201d is how our neural system defines a concept by grouping together what goes with \u2014 or gets framed with \u2014 that concept. Our brains are wired this way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For example, when you read \u201cclimate change,\u201d your brain immediately frames the concept of climate change with certain words and concepts. Everyone cognitively frames \u201cclimate change\u201d somewhat differently, but there might also be large overlaps. Terms like \u201cfossil fuels\u201d and \u201chuman activity\u201d might be in many people\u2019s climate change frames, although frames can differ widely. (Think, for example, of climate change skeptics.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2017\/09\/18\/putting-hurricanes-and-climate-change-into-the-same-frame.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Good, an associate professor in Communications, Popular Culture and Film, wrote a piece published in the Toronto Star about her analysis of media coverage of recent hurricanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[86,3655,5797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95268,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46742\/revisions\/95268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}