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UK Media Representations of Carbon Capture and Storage: Actors, Frames and Metaphors

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dc.creator Jaspal, Rusi
dc.creator Nerlich, Brigitte
dc.date 2013-06-18T15:35:17Z
dc.date 2013-06-18T15:35:17Z
dc.date 2013
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-22T17:06:27Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-22T17:06:27Z
dc.identifier Jaspal, R. and Nerlich, B. (2013). UK Media Representations of Carbon Capture and Storage: Actors, Frames and Metaphors. Metaphor and the Social World, 3 (1), pp. 35-53.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2086/8750
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.3.1.02ner
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/254469
dc.description The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
dc.description Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of representations of CCS in the British media and their possible impact on public perceptions and public policy. Public perception of CCS is shaped in part by the media which provide tools for making sense of complex technological and political issues such as CCS. This article compares articles on CCS in two UK newspapers, one national (“The Times”) and one regional (“The Aberdeen Press and Journal”) in 2011, a year during which some of the last battles over CCS demonstration projects were fought. It applies frame and metaphor analysis to a corpus of 150 articles. Findings reveal that during 2011 CCS coverage moved through a cycle of hype and disillusionment, with both newspapers reaching a trough of disappointment at the end of 2011. It will be difficult to reignite interest in CCS in this context, both in terms of media and public attention, and in terms of policy and investment. Regional confidence in national CCS policy in particular will be difficult to recover.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Metaphor and the Social World
dc.subject carbon capture and storage
dc.subject climate change
dc.subject media analysis
dc.subject metaphor
dc.title UK Media Representations of Carbon Capture and Storage: Actors, Frames and Metaphors
dc.type Article


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