Global Multimodal News Frames on Climate Change: A Comparison of Five Democracies around the World

International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 423-445

  Wessler, Hartmut ^a   Wozniak, Antal ^a   Hofer, Lutz ^a   Lück, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

comparative research; environment; global news; media framing; news events; newspapers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987849610     PISSN: 19401612     EISSN: 19401620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1940161216661848     Document Type: Article

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