| dc.description.abstract | The aim of this thesis is to get insight into the media discourse on climate change experts In the Norwegian media. The goal is to investigate how these experts are being presented in the media: rather than what experts are being presented. There is seemingly not much research on the media's presentation of climate change experts in a Norwegian context. Hence, I would like to argue that this thesis can provide a small contribution and insight, into how some Norwegian newspapers portray climate experts in their articles. On the other hand, I don't claim that this thesis can give two lines under the answer, but rather, as said, give a little insight into how the Norwegian media present climate change experts, by indicating trends that are showing up in the data material. The research question for this thesis is:
How do the Norwegian media present experts on climate change issues?
I have researched this question by conducting a critical discourse analysis while accounting for relevant theories on both discourse and expertise. The data material consists of four of the biggest national newspapers in Norway, collected strategically from the four latest time periods when an IPCC report was released while using the search words climate and expert.
My analysis indicates that there has been an increasing trend to reference experts on climate change issues in the chosen newspapers, as well as an overall increasing trend in the number of articles published where these experts are presented. It also indicates that multiple different types of experts are references in articles discussing climate change. Seemingly, there has been a shift from referencing more natural science experts at the beginning of the century to referencing more political experts and social science experts in recent years. Further that the experts are presented as people who give information that either advocates actions or reasons or not. And the majority of the experts presented in this data material were presented as advocating either a specific action or reason for why something was occurring. Further, there seemingly were no local experts presented and the IPCC was often not included in these articles. | |
