ECOLA_Environmental Communication in Latin America: Innovations and Challenges of Climate Reporting

ECOLA_拉丁美洲环境传播：气候报告的创新与挑战

• 批准号: EP/Z000963/1
• 负责人: Claudia Sarmento
• 金额: $ 23.15万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FZ000963%2F1
• 关键词: ECOLA_Environmental; Communication; Latin; America; Innovations

The role of media is key to shape public understanding of humans' impact on the planet, raising awareness of environmental issues and motivating social and policy actions to tackle them. Within the field of environmental communication, and more specifically climate change communication, news media coverage has received an increasing amount of scholarly attention. However, most of the studies that delve into the practices, effects, impediments, and successful strategies to frame content about the environment are centered on the Global North. In contrast, this research (acronym ECOLA) is focused on Latin America, home to one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet and a region particularly susceptible to the impact of climate change. Amid the widespread threat of misinformation in countries such as Brazil, this study moves beyond traditional news media enquiries to investigate how a broader range of communicators across different media and national contexts, such as reporters, photojournalists, documentary filmmakers and community leaders, are disseminating mediated discourses about the environment that can push for solutions. Understanding the debates raised by a diverse group o regional media actors is essential to build connections between global researchers, media producers and other stakeholders interested in strategic communication to facilitate society's engagement with ecological problems. Environmental communication is a growing field of research that bridges natural sciences and the humanities, crossing different disciplines such as media, journalism, cultural, social movements and urban studies. ECOLA aims to expand the interdisciplinary knowledge of the field by critically analysing the landscape and the dynamics of environmental communication in an underrepresented region and beyond large media corporations.The main research questions address the type of news stories that Latin American producers are disseminating online to inform society about ecological crises beyond "breaking news"; the extent to which they include the voices of those who are among the most affected and the main challenges of environmental coverage in a regional context of economic and political instability. The project will use semi-structured interviews with journalists and other environmental communicators across Latin America, to establish their views on their innovative practices, their perceived role, the responses from the audiences and the challenges to inform society about climate change. Their accounts will help to identify unifying aspects of their practices and to shed light on transnation obstacles such as anti-enviromental discourses driven by misinformation, political polarisation and/or economic pressure. Interviews will be combined with participant observation in Brazil and analysis of the coverage of climate change, using seminal case studies.

媒体的作用对于塑造公众对人类对地球影响的理解、提高对环境问题的认识以及激励社会和政策行动来解决这些问题至关重要。在环境传播领域，更具体地说是气候变化传播领域，新闻媒体报道受到了越来越多的学术关注。然而，大多数深入探讨构建环境内容的实践、影响、障碍和成功策略的研究都集中在北半球。相比之下，这项研究（缩写 ECOLA）主要针对拉丁美洲，这里是地球上生态系统最多样化的地区之一，也是一个特别容易受到气候变化影响的地区。在巴西等国家，错误信息存在广泛威胁，本研究超越了传统的新闻媒体调查，调查了不同媒体和国家背景下的更广泛的传播者，如记者、摄影记者、纪录片制作人和社区领袖，如何传播媒介信息。关于可以推动解决方案的环境的讨论。了解不同区域媒体参与者提出的辩论对于在全球研究人员、媒体制作人和其他对战略传播感兴趣的利益相关者之间建立联系至关重要，以促进社会参与生态问题。环境传播是一个不断发展的研究领域，它连接自然科学和人文学科，跨越媒体、新闻、文化、社会运动和城市研究等不同学科。 ECOLA 旨在通过批判性地分析代表性不足的地区以及大型媒体公司之外的环境传播的景观和动态来扩展该领域的跨学科知识。主要研究问题涉及拉丁美洲生产者在线传播的新闻报道类型。社会对生态危机的关注超越“突发新闻”；它们在多大程度上涵盖了受影响最严重者的声音以及在经济和政治不稳定的区域背景下环境覆盖的主要挑战。该项目将采用半结构化采访方式对拉丁美洲各地的记者和其他环境传播者进行采访，以了解他们对创新实践、感知角色、受众的反应以及向社会宣传气候变化所面临的挑战的看法。他们的叙述将有助于确定其实践的统一方面，并​​揭示跨国障碍，例如由错误信息、政治两极分化和/或经济压力驱动的反环境言论。访谈将与巴西的参与观察相结合，并利用开创性的案例研究对气候变化的覆盖范围进行分析。