Media and Global Climate Knowledge

Risto Kunelius is Professor of Journalism at University of Tampere, Finland. Elisabeth Eide is Professor of Journalism at University College of Oslo and Akershus, Norway. Matthew Tegelberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. Dmitry Yagodin is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Tampere, Finland.

The problem: Climate change, politics and the media .- Science, communication and the space of global media attention: Journalism and the IPCC AR5 .- Attention, access and the global space of interpretation: Media dynamics of the IPCC AR5 launch year .- Mediated civic epistemologies? Journalism, domestication and the IPCC AR5 .-  Disaster, risk or opportunity? A ten-country comparison of themes in coverage of the IPCC AR5 .- Journalism, climate change, justice and solidarity: Editorializing the IPCC AR5 in “developed countries” .- Emerging economies and BRICS climate policy: The justifying role of media .- Who captures the voice of the climate? Policy networks and the political role of media in Australia, France and Japan .- Following the Tweets: What happened to the IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report on Twitter? .- Climate change and development journalism in the Global South .- Good practices in climate science journalism .-  Embryonic transnational professionalism? Key journalists in IPCC AR5 coverage .- Conclusion: From assessments to solutions.