Science in pictures: Visual representation of climate change in Spain’s television news

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 183-199

  León, Bienvenido ^a   Erviti, Mª Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

climate change; media and science; media representaitons; science journalism

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PERCEPTION; SPAIN; TELEVISION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PERCEPTION; SPAIN; TELEVISION;

EID: 84951574884     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: 13616609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662513500196     Document Type: Article

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