Comparing Climate Change Coverage in Canadian English-and French-Language Print Media: Environmental Values, Media Cultures, and the Narration of Global Warming

Canadian Journal of Sociology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-54

  Young, Nathan ^a   Dugas, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental values; Framing; Journalism; Language; Media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874686982     PISSN: 03186431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.29173/cjs9733     Document Type: Article

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