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Climate and Class: A U.S.-U.K Comparison of Socially Stratified Knowledge Production in Digital Information Networks.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Climate and Class: A U.S.-U.K Comparison of Socially Stratified Knowledge Production in Digital Information Networks./
Author:	Neff, Timothy.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	415 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-12A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13880297
ISBN:	9781392211427

Climate and Class: A U.S.-U.K Comparison of Socially Stratified Knowledge Production in Digital Information Networks.
Neff, Timothy.

Climate and Class: A U.S.-U.K Comparison of Socially Stratified Knowledge Production in Digital Information Networks. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 415 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Using Pierre Bourdieu's field theory and the comparative media systems perspective, this dissertation examines the relationship between socioeconomics and discourse about the social problem of climate change in news published on U.S. and U.K. news websites and on the social media platform Twitter. Algorithmic content analyses, coupled with manual content analyses, network analyses, and ethnographic techniques, indicate that news outlets with audience demographics leaning toward higher socioeconomic strata tend to produce news about climate change that foregrounds elite, expert-driven discourse. U.K. tabloid newspapers serving working-class audiences often use such discourse in spectacular ways that generate clicks or invite mockery while also producing news that emphasizes tangible, civil society dimensions of climate change. However, audience segmentation in the U.K. provides a structural condition for audience crossover, bringing expert information about climate change to audiences often skeptical of such information. On Twitter, discursive networks that form around climate change-focused hashtags are dominated by users among higher class strata. As Twitter discourse unfolds largely in the absence of the journalistic mediation of experts from the fields of science and economics, it predominantly features political and civil society voices. Moments of agonistic politics, such as protests, can shift Twitter discourse toward civil society concerns for global-scale issues and away from the more elite, expert-driven details of political processes. The dissertation underscores that although knowledge about climate produced in fields of expertise needs to find ways out of these fields and into the hands of democratic publics, it is a mistake to believe that this alone will persuade people to engage with the social problem of climate change. Knowledge about climate change is produced on a socially stratified terrain, and this terrain produces resonances and dissonances in the dissemination of that knowledge. Climate communication efforts that overlook these socioeconomic distinctions risk undercutting the engagement and inclusion of the broadest swath of democratic publics in addressing the social problem of climate change.

ISBN: 9781392211427Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

Climate and Class: A U.S.-U.K Comparison of Socially Stratified Knowledge Production in Digital Information Networks.
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