Frames, Stories, and Images: The Advantages of a Multimodal Approach in Comparative Media Content Research on Climate Change

Environmental Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 469-490

  Wozniak, Antal ^a   Lück, Julia ^a   Wessler, Hartmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

climate change; comparative research; content analysis; issue framing; narration; visual analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944171690     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.981559     Document Type: Article

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