Mediated Public Diplomacy : How News Agencies Covered Global Climate Change

Abstract

This research involves dissecting global media markets and how our news agencies around the world analyze global climate change. The goal is to show the similarities and differences among North America, Europe, Africa, China, and India. The first phase of this process was to code all news stories during the UN Climate Change Conference in the years 2011 and 2012. Dissecting the articles to decipher various aspects of what is published such as source, geography, and topic have been documented. By coding these articles, we will be able to find out the main differences between the several regions in the world.