This case study sought to understand how digital media represents climate change in Chile, with emphasis on mitigation, adaptation and resilience. A content analysys was made to four digital media with greater readership in Chile (2 liberal and 2 conservatives), since the Second National Communication on Climate Change (30/08/11) to the Centre for Climate Science and Resilience inauguration (31/10/13), to know the frames and prevailing narratives climate change news in Chile. A corpus of 58 national news was obtained, on wich a critical discourse analysis was made to understand the presence or absence of actors and narratives, and so make visible power relations. The most relevant findings of the content analysis were: (i) low number of news on climate change in Chile (14.83%) compared to international; (ii) the primary definers of the subject were government actors; (iii) and the invisibility of people and civic organizations.
Keywords:
Climate change, medial frame, discourse analysis, public agenda
Hasbún, J. (2016). Discourse analysis to digital media in Chile regarding climate change: frames for the construction of public and politics agendas. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 1(1), 48–76. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2015.38358
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