News coverage of climate change in Nature News and ScienceNOW during 2007

Environmental Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-44

  Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt ^a   Schmidt Kjærgaard, Rikke ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate Change; Content Analysis; Framing; Nature News; Online News Coverage; ScienceNOW

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951875176     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2010.520722     Document Type: Article

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