Journal article
Sources and Framing of Fracking: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage in North Carolina, New York, and Pennsylvania
Environmental communication, Vol.11(3), pp.370-385
05/04/2017
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2016.1269819
Abstract
Research across several decades has mapped the way complex environmental issues with complicated policy implications are often differentially framed within the media, public, and policy agendas with major implications for how they are understood, discussed, and decided. Building on this work, this this study compared news coverage of the debate over natural gas "fracking" in New York, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina between the period 2008 and 2013. Examining state newspapers, the analysis evaluated the types of sources used, the assertions of these sources, and how the issue of fracking was framed. From a general perspective, this study reveals how differences in framing of an environmental and scientific controversy can be attributed to the locally relevant sources used in reporting, as well as the political, economic, and social factors that might be unique to a state. Specific to the debate over natural gas "fracking," this study adds to our understanding of how such state-based factors influence the portrayal of the issue in the news media.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Sources and Framing of Fracking: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage in North Carolina, New York, and Pennsylvania
- Creators
- Kylah J Hedding - School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Environmental communication, Vol.11(3), pp.370-385
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/17524032.2016.1269819
- ISSN
- 1752-4032
- eISSN
- 1752-4040
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/04/2017
- Academic Unit
- School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984083246202771
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