Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Communication
First Advisor
Cynthia-Lou Coleman
Term of Graduation
Spring 2022
Date of Publication
7-11-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.) in Communication
Department
Communication
Language
English
Subjects
Climatic changes -- Press coverage, Communication in the environmental sciences, Frames (Sociology), Journalism -- Objectivity, Mass media and the environment, Green New Deal, New York times, Wall Street journal
DOI
10.15760/etd.7953
Physical Description
1 online resource (iv, 73 pages)
Abstract
The importance of climate change recognition and need for action cannot be overstated. Climate change has historically been a partisan issue with an almost hyper focus on the (un)certainty of science, the need for action within a particular timeframe, and the cost of tackling the issue. With the contemporary relevance and salience of climate change, this content analysis explores emerging framing patterns in coverage of the Green New Deal and subsequent climate change references within news articles from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in 2019. Frame typology from O'Neill et al. (2015) is used to explore the framing patterns and inform the coding process. I applied a framing analysis via a directed content analysis and a close reading of collected articles to uncover frames at the article level (Hsieh and Shannon, 2005). 54 articles were analyzed: 46 from the New York Times and 8 from the Wall Street Journal.
Results indicate that the economy, political and ideological divides (both across and within the parties), and settled nature of climate science are at the forefront of coverage and concern. My findings follow previous studies' results but highlight the growing divide within the parties on how to address and tackle climate change and climate policies.
Rights
© 2022 Danielle Elizabeth Duffy
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/38257
Recommended Citation
Duffy, Danielle Elizabeth, "Framing the Green New Deal and Climate Change: A Content Analysis of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal" (2022). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 6093.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.7953