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TY - JOUR
T1 - Framing nitrogen pollution in the British press
T2 - 1984-2018
AU - Zottola, Angela
AU - Atanasova, Dimitrinka
AU - Cardwell, Emma
AU - Forrester, John
AU - Stevens, Carly
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Discourse & Communication, 14 (1), 2019, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Discourse & Communication page: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/dcm on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - Awareness of the risks posed by excess nitrogen is low beyond the scientific community. As public understanding of scientific issues is partly influenced by news reporting, this article is the first to study how the British press has discussed nitrogen pollution. A corpus-assisted frame analysis of newspaper articles (1984-2018) highlighted five frames: Activism, where environmental charities and organizations are portrayed as having an active role in fighting pollution; Government Responsibility, where privatization is presented as central and positioned as one of the main causes of pollution; Industry Responsibility, in which industries' actions are depicted as causing pollution to increase; Pollutions as Politics, in which pollution is not discussed as a problem to be solved but rather as a means to increase votes; and Risk, where readers are warned about the possible effects of pollution on human health, flora and fauna. The analysis also points to the absence of named scientists and sources with the coverage being dominated by politicians.
AB - Awareness of the risks posed by excess nitrogen is low beyond the scientific community. As public understanding of scientific issues is partly influenced by news reporting, this article is the first to study how the British press has discussed nitrogen pollution. A corpus-assisted frame analysis of newspaper articles (1984-2018) highlighted five frames: Activism, where environmental charities and organizations are portrayed as having an active role in fighting pollution; Government Responsibility, where privatization is presented as central and positioned as one of the main causes of pollution; Industry Responsibility, in which industries' actions are depicted as causing pollution to increase; Pollutions as Politics, in which pollution is not discussed as a problem to be solved but rather as a means to increase votes; and Risk, where readers are warned about the possible effects of pollution on human health, flora and fauna. The analysis also points to the absence of named scientists and sources with the coverage being dominated by politicians.
KW - Ammonia
KW - British press
KW - corpus-assisted frame analysis
KW - environmental issues
KW - framing
KW - nitrates
KW - nitrogen pollution
U2 - 10.1177/1750481319876772
DO - 10.1177/1750481319876772
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 84
EP - 103
JO - Discourse and Communication
JF - Discourse and Communication
SN - 1750-4813
IS - 1
ER -