TY - JOUR
T1 - Politics triumphs
T2 - a topic modelling approach for analyzing news media coverage of climate change in Pakistan
AU - Ejaz, Waqas
AU - Ittefaq, Muhammad
AU - Jamil, Sadia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/1/11
Y1 - 2023/1/11
N2 - News media is one of the main sources of information for many people around the world on climate change. It not only increases awareness among the public but also has the potential to sensitize people toward climate change impacts. To date, few studies focus on media coverage of climate change in low-income countries such as Pakistan which is among the top ten countries impacted by global warming. This study used Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling and analyzed 7,655 climate change-related news articles published between 2010 and 2021 in three Pakistani English newspapers. Our results suggest that climate change coverage in Pakistan has substantially increased over the years, however, the focus has generally been on “climate politics,” “climate governance and policy,” and “climate change and society.” Evolution of the different themes and their potential impacts on people are discussed.
AB - News media is one of the main sources of information for many people around the world on climate change. It not only increases awareness among the public but also has the potential to sensitize people toward climate change impacts. To date, few studies focus on media coverage of climate change in low-income countries such as Pakistan which is among the top ten countries impacted by global warming. This study used Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling and analyzed 7,655 climate change-related news articles published between 2010 and 2021 in three Pakistani English newspapers. Our results suggest that climate change coverage in Pakistan has substantially increased over the years, however, the focus has generally been on “climate politics,” “climate governance and policy,” and “climate change and society.” Evolution of the different themes and their potential impacts on people are discussed.
KW - Environmental communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85150810462&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.22323/2.22010202
DO - https://doi.org/10.22323/2.22010202
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85150810462
SN - 1824-2049
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - Journal of Science Communication
JF - Journal of Science Communication
IS - 1
M1 - 02
ER -