Seeing climate change: The visual construction of global warming in Canadian national print media

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 517-536

  DiFrancesco, Darryn Anne ^a   Young, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Climate change; Environment; Imagery; Media; Visual communication

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICATION; COMPLEXITY; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGERY; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE;

CANADA;

EID: 80054780831     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474010382072     Document Type: Article

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