Media Climate Research Articles

Asymmetric effects of media climate sentiment divergence on the volatility of green and grey energy stocks

Asymmetric effects of media climate sentiment divergence on the volatility of green and grey energy stocks

Real effects of media climate change concerns

Real effects of media climate change concerns

From Kent State to Black Lives Matter: Student Affairs’ Relationship With Campus Activism

Kent State University (KSU) has been associated with campus activism history since May 4, 1970. Using a case study approach, we interrogated if and how KSU student affairs administrators’ approach to activism has changed in the intervening decades and how the legacy of the shootings informed their practice during the Black Lives Matters protests of 2020. We found administrators’ bedrock values and approach were consistent across the two periods. However, their tactics for working with activists shifted in line with the growth and evolution of the field of student affairs, available technologies, and the social and news media climate.

Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs

AbstractWe examine policymakers' nuanced strategies of digital agenda setting during times of lawmaker uncertainty versus anticipated policy communication. Whereas existing agenda‐setting studies tend to focus on how policymakers allocate attention to preferred policies, we explain how policymakers react to an issue in a digital media climate where the expectation is engagement. We explore the dynamics of digital agenda setting with U.S. senators' Twitter activity in response to the unexpected document leak overturning Roe v. Wade and the anticipated, subsequent Supreme Court decision. Policymakers across the political spectrum quickly reacted to both events, capturing shared policy attention, yet did so with variable response times and differing frames for the issue. We argue that when the agenda rapidly contracts and issues become salient on Twitter, the uncertainty, time, and tenor of lawmakers' response tell us about their policy‐making priorities. Punctuated attention cycles churn fast in a digital climate, but even amid these quick, attention‐grabbing news cycles, the nuance of those moments and policy uncertainty suggest that rhetorical agendas differ when galvanizing events are anticipated. How policymakers convey their agenda when the media environment incentivizes lawmakers to respond regardless of issue prioritization is fundamental to understanding policy attention by lawmakers operating a digital media environment.

CONTENT ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS ABOUT THE HEAT WAVES IN INDIA

Objective: The objective of this study is to present how heat waves in India are discussed by the media, to observe if they are being related to climate change. Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework for this study is based on the intersection of media studies, climate science, and disaster management. Method: This study employs content analysis to examine how heat waves in India are discussed in the media, particularly in relation to climate change. It was studied 100 news available on-line in Google News. Results and Discussion: The results indicated that while climate change is frequently mentioned in the context of heat waves, the depth and context of these mentions vary significantly. Media reports tend to focus on immediate impacts such as health issues and infrastructure disruptions. For instance, there were numerous mentions of heat-related deaths, hospitalizations, and interruptions in water and electricity supplies. However, there was less emphasis on long-term solutions and comprehensive adaptation strategies. Research Implications: This study highlights the importance of media coverage in shaping public understanding and policy responses to climate change and extreme weather events. Originality/Value: This study contributes to the existing literature by providing a detailed analysis of how heat waves in India are framed in the media, particularly in relation to climate change.

Literacy in the New Media Age: What Has Changed ?

Media landscape has seen remarkable changes over the decades because of new technological inventions globally. Technological inventions have multiple impacts in media landscape that has been differently shaping the traditional one-way communication practice. The concept of media literacy interpreted earlier has also been shifting, and there are issues with the arrival of new interactive media in the world. This article deals with media literacy: its basic concepts and theoretical assumptions and the shifting of the traditional definition guided by the changing media technology and media consumption pattern in Nepali context. It examines the changing Nepali media literacy landscape through a critical approach and analyze how the content generation has been impacted by the changing media climate.

Blessings or curse: How do media climate change concerns affect commodity tail risk spillovers?

In this paper, we examine the time-varying tail risks transmission among the agricultural, precious metals, and energy commodities markets, and explore how climate change concerns affect this connectedness. Using the Conditional Autoregressive Value-at-Risk (CAViaR) model and the time-varying parameter vector autoregressive (TVP-VAR) connectedness model, our empirical analysis reveals several key findings. First, our tail risk-based approach shows that tail risks transmission rises during crisis periods such as the GFC of 2007 and the Covid period of 2020. Second, climate risks, in particular climate transitions risks, play an important role in commodity tail risk connectedness. These findings are important for investors, practitioners, and policymakers. Our results are robust to a number of robustness tests.

Environmental Politics Through the Use of Social Media to Spread the Issue of Climate Change and Land Fires

Social media is employed in various acts, one of which is related to social movements, as in the example of social movements against climate change that use social media. This study seeks to understand the social media used in the climate change social movement that occurred on social media. This research's value and analysis portion was delivered through a descriptive narrative and a qualitative technique. This study also used qualitative data analysis software (Q-DAS) to learn about the trends in social media conversations and themes. Twitter was the social media platform employed in this study. This study addresses the following question: Q1 What kind of relevant climate change theme is spreading on social media? Q2 Explain the role of hashtags in the climate change debate. Q3 What is the nature of the narrative that has propagated on social media about climate change subjects, and how relevant is it? Q4: How does climate change affect social movements from the standpoint of Green Politics? The findings of this study are as follows: 1.) The climate change topic gained traction on social media. The narrative in this example avoided utilizing hashtags to promote and provide information about climate change talks. 2.) There is still a link between the hashtags for climate change talks on social media. 3.) The narration on the climate change topic is dominating, with hashtags used to ensure that the narration spreads and that netizens pay attention. 4.) The social media climate change movement is a form of green political practice.

Exploring the Most Effective Mass Media Tools for Creating Awareness of Climate Change: A Study

In the twenty-first century, climate change is one of the most challenging issues for humanity, and mass communication channels, particularly radio and television, play a vital role in creating awareness of climate change among people in third-world countries. This study aimed to explore the more effective mass media tools for creating awareness of climate change. Data for the current study were collected through in-depth interviews with media experts and climate change authorities in Afghanistan. The study revealed that there are many ways to communicate with the public. Still, the most effective is through the mass media, because the mass media can communicate with millions of people at a time, everywhere. Furthermore, low literacy rates and poor socioeconomic conditions are the main reasons that most Afghans turned to radio and television. Besides, access to print media and the Internet in Afghanistan is limited. Radio and television are the best sources in the first place to create awareness of climate change.

Ghostface Needs a Hug – Self-care and the Return of the Repressed in Scream (2022)

How does the combination of remake and sequel (requel) affect narrations of trauma and grief in the 2022 movie Scream? The film’s positioning as an inter-generational transition with the goal of targeting new horror audiences highlights the need for developing complex and yet gripping story arcs in a media climate marked by serialization. In my analysis, I examine how the 2022 instalment revolves around explorations of an unresolved past, which re-erupts in violent ways. In particular, I focus on the movie’s investment in a modified cyclical narrative, which offers detailed insights into how the requel formula builds on the engagement with traumatic memory and combines it with strategies aimed at reviewing and reframing the past. Robin Wood’s concept of the “return of the repressed” offers key anchoring points for this analysis through its focus on the mutually reinforcing dynamic between social oppression and deadly energy. By highlighting the personal dramas visited upon the key protagonist of the film, Sam Carpenter, I embed her struggles with the past in a broader societal context, showcasing how engaging traumatic memory is also nested within a larger communal consciousness. The strategies employed by the protagonist connect with the requel format in significant ways, as they offer avenues for modulating and emulating the past. Through this analysis, it is shown that the repressed can itself be channeled toward self-affirming strategies, which revolve around the renegotiation of gendered concepts of authority and agency. A further takeaway are the limitations of neoliberal self-care, which is shown to be an inadequate approach in the film, as the monstrous resides in the communal and cannot be fully evaded through strategies aimed at individualization.

MAPPING ON USE OF MEDIA AND NEED OF MEDIA LITERACY PROGRAMMES FOR SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN IN AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA

The issue of media literacy has already been globally addressed especially the relationship the media has with children. However, because of COVID-19 pandemic, the media has become more involved in the lives of children where they have depended on it for school recreation and communication. With the over reliance on media by the school going children especially in these times where there is a new mode of communication with the improved technology, the researcher wanted to get a new perspective on how young people are adapting to media and how media literacy can make the adapting even easier. This research study is a part of an ongoing doctoral work on “Need Analysis for a Media Literacy Module in School Education Programs: Specific Study of State Board of Gujarat.” The present research is exploratory in nature and is aimed at finding out how media literacy will help school going children to cope up with the bombarding of media industry in their lives. This is primary research to discover the new information and reach a new understanding on how the school going children will adjust with the help of media literacy to the ever-changing media climate of the present. The research study uses in-depth structured interview as a tool to attain the required data of 68 participants which includes school students, teachers and parents of Ahmedabad schools. The research concludes that there is an overwhelming of media platforms especially social media that has bombarded the school going children’s lives and for safe navigation of the media world the children need the equipping to be done on a thorough level which calls for rigorous media literacy continuously because of the ever-evolving nature of the media world. If introduced as a subject at the school level, Media literacy can help children have the ability to access in terms of technical know how, analyse content to create a better understanding, also evaluate the media content as they retain what is for their benefit and discard what is not and also have the ability to be content creators even at a better and larger scale.

Contending fan engagement strategies in China's translocal economy: The case of Tibetan cyber star Ding Zhen

The Ding Zhen phenomenon saw a young Tibetan herder from Litang County of Sichuan Province gain a spotlight within China’s new-media celebrity industry, introducing a mode of translocal connectedness through a fan economy. The mode of connectedness features social engagement between Ding Zhen’s extra-local fans and a state-owned company in Litang with aims to profit from the influence of this cyber star to develop ethnic tourism, in line with the trend of using technological marketing solutions for poverty alleviation. Interacting with Litang’s media tactic, Ding Zhen’s fan communities on two Super Topics (超话) on Weibo compete to define proper fan behaviour and champion the rights and subject personhood of their idol beyond the limits of his localized identity. At the same time, the company aligns with the state’s stance on fan disciplining as a way of regulating fan friction and activism. The challenges faced by fans within the current media climate as they attempt to uphold fan subculture, as well as those faced by a highland ethnic town grappling with the complexities of unbalanced spatial development, serve as the underlying factors driving translocal cooperation and conflicts. In their intertwined situations, both extra-local fans and the local community seek empowerment, navigating their tensions towards a dynamic of accommodation.

Visions of Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Specialists About the Future of Work and Their Roles

In an international context where social effects and ethics related to artificial intelligence (AI) are receiving more attention, there is a dearth of research about how AI specialists perceive the future of work and their role in bringing about the respective future. Does the fact that ethics and social issues are receiving more publicity impact AI specialists’ views? The current study advances knowledge about this issue by describing a deep qualitative investigation of the visions of AI developers and researchers in Hungary, a country on the semi-periphery concerning the development of these technologies. In recent years, social and ethical challenges linked to AI have been covered in the Hungarian media as well, although they are less of a hot topic than in some Western countries. The twenty AI specialist interviewees’ accounts were characterised by their perception of the current period as one of hype, expectations of a slow and limited amount of technological change, techno-optimism, as well as a distancing of responsibility. Notably, the change in the media climate does not appear to have affected their thinking: social consequences and ethical issues associated with technology were neglected in their accounts. Potential drivers of their views and the potential effects of the country context are discussed, as well as the consequences of the experts’ expectations and implications for AI research and development.

Media Relations Strategy for Tin Mining Companies and Agenda Setting Media in Bangka Belitung

This paper describes the media relations strategy used by tin mining companies in Bangka Belitung province in developing the media setting agenda. On the one hand, tin mining companies have an agenda so they can carry out mining according to regulations. On the other hand, the local government as a party outside the mass media institutions and mining companies also has its own agenda. So that the issue of tin mining in Bangka Belitung has the potential for conflict of interest, not only between companies and the government, but also with community members. This study aims to find out how the media relations strategy of tin mining companies is in compiling the agenda setting of the mass media in Bangka Belitung. This is a qualitative research with data collection techniques through participatory observation. The research data was obtained through semi-closed observation and participation as well as interviews with a number of informants who have competence and relevance to the research problem. The findings of this study indicate that the mass media as an economic institution is driven by transactional principles. On the other hand, tin mining companies and local governments have a common agenda setting. The relationship between these various sides is an internal factor that occurs in a very dynamic new media climate. While the very dynamic activity in the new media era is an external factor. The relationship between internal and external factors is described as something that can set the media setting agenda. Agenda setting is a theory that explains the media shape the audience's agenda

REDUCING THE POLITICIZATION OF RELIGION AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITY GROUPS AHEAD OF THE 2024 POLITICAL YEAR IN INDONESIA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DIGITAL MEDIA

Indonesian people have lived together in a socio-religious context in a peaceful atmosphere, full of tolerance within the framework of diversity, and prioritizing religious values. However, this peace and harmony turned into conflict, hostility, and discrimination, which was triggered by political elites using religion through identity politics and the politicization of religion to gain power in the 2019 legislative and presidential elections, which started with the fire that was ignited in the 2017 DKI Pilkada. This article uses a qualitative type virtual ethnographic method and literature review in obtaining main data derived from the search results, collection, and processing of sixty reputable national and international scientific journals, general and religious-based online news websites, to social media platforms. Digital media has become a battle arena that legitimizes narratives of the politicization of religion and identity politics which ultimately lead to social turmoil with political and religious nuances so that a series of strategies are needed by the government, religious leaders, and a plural society that are concerned about these conditions in moderating the digital world and digitalization-based cross-cultural religious literacy in the form of positive-inclusive content that is massive and has a large flow so that it exalts the political narrative of humanity which becomes the spirit of politics until finally a soothing social and digital media climate is created without any negative tendencies that become seeds of discrimination and conflict when elections come.

Climate change attention and carbon futures return prediction

AbstractThis study explores the predictive effect of climate change attention on carbon futures returns. Using climate‐related Google Trends and news, we construct five dimensions of the public climate attention index and media climate attention index. After feature selection, we incorporate the optimized combination with lagged order into the machine learning model to predict EU Emission Allowance futures returns. Our empirical results show that the forecasting models with climate attention outperform the corresponding benchmark models, indicating that climate attention does provide predictive information for carbon futures returns. In addition, we carry out trading simulations to investigate the economic performance of the forecast results. It turns out that the market strategies based on the prediction models with climate attention can deliver more benefits than the counterpart market strategies. More specifically, the cumulative returns reach 140% during the out‐of‐sample period, much higher than 79% of the cumulative returns of the buy‐and‐hold strategy.

How Media, Information Sources, and Trust Shape Climate Change Denial or Doubt

Climate change skepticism presents an opportunity to examine the role of media, information, and trust on views about controversial scientific topics. Building on extant work on predictors of skepticism and the role of information and trust in shaping skeptical attitudes, in this paper, we examine the relationship between climate change skeptics’ access of media/information sources, trust, and the strength of their skepticism. Specifically, we use data gathered from 1,000 surveys with skeptics in the U.S. Pacific Northwest to present an analysis of how trust in institutions and institutional leaders affect the relationship between skeptics’ information sources and their type/strength of skepticism along a “continuum” of skeptical thought. Results reveal that the reliance on conservative/rightwing media and trust in actors steeped within the climate change denial countermovement is associated with a higher degree of denial of anthropogenic climate change as opposed to doubt of the phenomenon. Further, skeptics’ reliance on non-scientific sources for climate change information is partly explained by their distrust in climate scientists.

Media Bias and Climate Change Skepticism

Media Bias and Climate Change Skepticism

Climate Change Concerns and the Performance of Green vs. Brown Stocks

We empirically test the prediction of Pástor et al. (2021) that green firms outperform brown firms when concerns about climate change increase unexpectedly, using data for S&P 500 companies from January 2010 to June 2018. To capture unexpected increases in climate change concerns, we construct a daily Media Climate Change Concerns index using news about climate change published by major U.S. newspapers and newswires. We find that on days with an unexpected increase in climate change concerns, the green firms’ stock prices tend to increase, whereas brown firms’ prices decrease. Furthermore, using topic modeling, we conclude that this effect holds for concerns about both transition and physical climate change risk. Finally, we decompose returns into cash flow and discount rate news components and find that an unexpected increase in climate change concerns is associated with an increase (decrease) in the discount rate of brown (green) firms. This paper was accepted by George Serafeim, Special Section of Management Science on Business and Climate Change. Funding: This work was supported by the National Bank of Belgium, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Institut de Valorisation des Données (IVADO), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [Grant RGPIN-2022-03767], and Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Grants 179281, 191730]. Supplemental Material: The data files and online appendix are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4636 .

Lack of ‘common sense’ in the climate change debate: Media behaviour and climate change awareness in the UK

Based on an online survey conducted among a representative sample in the United Kingdom ( n = 1013), this article investigates the role of traditional and new media in predicting climate change awareness. It suggests that individuals make choices under an ideological convincement that is organised within specific cultural and political-economic boundaries. It shows that the Gramscian concept of cultural hegemony is still valuable to make sense of an incessant process of formation and fragmentation of equilibria between social groups. Interpreting hegemony as a not totalitarian communicative process also suggests that the media represent a ground for counterhegemonies to flourish and trigger political transformation. This study constructs two indexes of both scepticism and advocacy of climate change by showing some traits of these two perspectives in the United Kingdom. It also shows that the division between sceptics and advocates’ convincement is not ‘black and white’, but a transitional space exists between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces.