Information and opinion in the representation of scientific consensus and skepticism on climate change, in Spanish language online publications | Zendy

Bienvenido León | Zendy; Mónica Codina | Zendy

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Information and opinion in the representation of scientific consensus and skepticism on climate change, in Spanish language online publications

Author(s) -

Bienvenido León,

Mónica Codina

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

observatorio (obs*)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.265

H-Index - 11

ISSN - 1646-5954

DOI - 10.15847/obsobs10320161021

Subject(s) - skepticism , scientific consensus , representation (politics) , scientific evidence , digital media , epistemology , climate change , political science , sociology , philosophy , global warming , law , ecology , politics , biology

This paper explores the representation of scientific consensus and skepticism on Climate Change (CC), in online Spanish language publications, by a content analysis of the results of a search of “quinto informe IPCC” (5th IPCC report) on Google. Results indicate that legacy media represent exclusively the scientific consensus, whereas digital natives represent the skeptic voices. Legacy media tend to differentiate information from opinion, whereas digital natives tend not to differentiate one from the other. The “information-opinion” mix is often used by digital natives as an strategy to situate the IPCC at the same epistemological level of other scientific and non-scientific sources.

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