Framing and Sources: Environmental Justice in Bangladesh Newspapers

Das, J

Framing and Sources: Environmental Justice in Bangladesh Newspapers

Das, J

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Publisher:: Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Pacific Journalism Review, 2019, 25 (1/2), pp. 122 - 138
Issue Date:: 2019-07

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dc.contributor.author	Das, J https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-2350	en_US
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dc.identifier.citation	Pacific Journalism Review, 2019, 25 (1/2), pp. 122 - 138	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	With the rapid economic development and growing population, Bangladesh is one of the most environmentally vulnerable countries in the world. In this country, news reporting of environmental issues is vibrant and vigorous, although it attracts scant scholarly attention. In fact, environmental journalism in this South Asian country is one of the least studied topics in the area of journalism research. The current study attends to this country and examines news sources in two newspapers in Bangladesh, focusing on their coverage of river systems and climate change in 2009 and 2015. This study explores various sources, such as politicians, bureaucrats, activists, and citizens, and the patterns of emphasis in the news by using these sources to understand the framing of river degradation and climate change. The aim here is to illustrate the journalists’ influence in defining these environmental problems against various news sources and social actors. The analysis reveals an emphasis on political and bureaucratic sources in 2009 and on expert and citizen sources in 2015. Additionally, the analysis also demonstrates that the journalists –-as actors in defining the reality—have exerted ‘influence’ on accentuating environmental concerns by shifting their source emphasis over time from politicians and bureaucrats to experts and citizens, thus upholding the discourse of environmental justice from varied contexts	en_US
dc.publisher	Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre	en_US
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dc.title	Framing and Sources: Environmental Justice in Bangladesh Newspapers	en_US
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Abstract:

With the rapid economic development and growing population, Bangladesh is one of the most environmentally vulnerable countries in the world. In this country, news reporting of environmental issues is vibrant and vigorous, although it attracts scant scholarly attention. In fact, environmental journalism in this South Asian country is one of the least studied topics in the area of journalism research. The current study attends to this country and examines news sources in two newspapers in Bangladesh, focusing on their coverage of river systems and climate change in 2009 and 2015. This study explores various sources, such as politicians, bureaucrats, activists, and citizens, and the patterns of emphasis in the news by using these sources to understand the framing of river degradation and climate change. The aim here is to illustrate the journalists’ influence in defining these environmental problems against various news sources and social actors. The analysis reveals an emphasis on political and bureaucratic sources in 2009 and on expert and citizen sources in 2015. Additionally, the analysis also demonstrates that the journalists –-as actors in defining the reality—have exerted ‘influence’ on accentuating environmental concerns by shifting their source emphasis over time from politicians and bureaucrats to experts and citizens, thus upholding the discourse of environmental justice from varied contexts

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