What drives media attention for climate change? Explaining issue attention in Australian, German and Indian print media from 1996 to 2010

International Communication Gazette

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 152-176

  Schäfer, Mike S ^a   Ivanova, Ana ^b   Schmidt, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

agenda setting; climate change; comparative research; Issue attention; time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893606328     PISSN: 17480485     EISSN: 17480493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1748048513504169     Document Type: Article

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