Image matters: Climate change imagery in US, UK and Australian newspapers

Geoforum

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-19

  O'Neill, Saffron J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Content analysis; Cultural politics; Framing; Imagery; Visual

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879261474     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.030     Document Type: Article

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