title: Framing of climate change in newspaper coverage of the East Anglia e-mail scandal.
abstract: In late 2009, a series of e-mails related to climate research were made public following the hacking into a server and the e-mail accounts of researchers at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit. According to some skeptics of climate change research, the content of those e-mails suggested data were being manipulated, while climate scientists said their words were taken out of context. The news coverage of this scandal provides an opportunity to consider media framing. This study has two aims: to extend previous research using a cluster analysis technique to discern frames in media texts; and to provide insight into newspaper coverage of the scandal, which is often referred to as "Climategate." This study examines the frames present in two British and two American newspapers' coverage of the issue.
authors.affiliation: Michigan State University, USA.
authors.forename: Brian J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Bowe
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oshita
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Terracina-Hartman
authors.forename: Wen-Chi
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Chao
mesh_terms: D057231:Climate Change; D016494:Computer Security; D034742:Electronic Mail; D006801:Humans; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D011639:Public Opinion; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D058028:Research Report / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States
keywords: Climategate; climate change; cluster analysis; framing; newspapers