Climate coverage from the South: critical analysis of non-hegemonic journalistic discourses
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-6924.2022.e82435Keywords:
Non-hegemonic journalism, Climate change, DiscoursesAbstract
This article aims to analyze the meanings and strategies used by three non-hegemonic media in their journalistic discourses on climate change, all of them committed to the transformation of a more sustainable society: Colabora, Conexão Planeta and Envolverde. This research is methodologically anchored in Critical Discourse Analysis and investigates the coverage of climate change in the years 2019 and 2020. The results demonstrate that the discourses on the climatic emergency are strongly crossed by the perspective of the North and dominated by a framework of actions and effects, and referring to scientific field stakeholders as the main sources. Activists, often ignored by hegemonic media, occasionally stand out, but do not reflect the expected pluralism. The causes of climate collapse are almost not mentioned. The capitalist-colonialist system, responsible for the worsening of the climate crisis, continues invisible, signalizing the presence of a journalistic coloniality even in the media that cannot be categorized as hegemonic.
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