A review of environmental news reporting in South Africa: case studies on climate change and energy, fracking, and acid mine drainage

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dc.contributor.authorSuliman, Lutfiyah
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-20T08:17:34Z
dc.date.available2019-05-20T08:17:34Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionA dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Johannesburg, 2018en_ZA
dc.description.abstractEnvironmental communication in media has been studied largely in American and European contexts, since the 1990s. These studies have revealed the trends in reporting on the greatest environmental threats of our time, and the predominant framing of environmental risks, most notably those posed by climate change. Despite the crucial role that media plays in developing environmental narratives, few studies on environmental media reporting in developing nations, especially African nations, have been conducted. This research thus evaluates the media role in communicating environmental issues and environmental science in the South African media context. By conducting coverage and content analysis on three environmental issues at the core of the industrial development that underpins the South African economy: acid- mine drainage, fracking and climate change and energy, in five commercial newspapers, it is shown that South African media coverage of environmental issues is still limited by demographic factors which influence the news agenda of publications; that social framing of environmental news is important to environmental journalists and raising the environmental agenda in the newsroom; and government voices speak loudest on these important environmental issuesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianMT 2019en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (117 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationSuliman, Lutfiyah (2018) A review of environmental news reporting in South Africa :|bcase studies on climate change and energy, fracking, and acid mine drainage, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, https://hdl.handle.net/10539/27069
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/27069
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshCommunication in science
dc.subject.lcshJournalism, Commercial
dc.subject.lcshPress--Influence
dc.titleA review of environmental news reporting in South Africa: case studies on climate change and energy, fracking, and acid mine drainageen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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