Talk like an expert: The construction of expertise in news comments concerning climate change
| Autor: | Ruth Woods, Sharon Coen, Joanne Meredith, Ana Fernandez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
media_common.quotation_subject Climate change 050801 communication & media studies 01 natural sciences Newspaper 0508 media and communications Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Argument Developmental and Educational Psychology Sociology Public engagement 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common business.industry Communication media 05 social sciences Common sense Articles Public relations online news climate change comments Discursive psychology Guardian expertise business Construct (philosophy) |
| Zdroj: | Public Understanding of Science (Bristol, England) |
| ISSN: | 1361-6609 0963-6625 |
| Popis: | This article explores how readers of UK newspapers construct expertise around climate change. It draws on 300 online readers’ comments on news items in The Guardian, Daily Mail and The Telegraph, concerning the release of the International Panel on Climate Change report calling for immediate action on climate change. Comments were analysed using discursive psychology. We identified a series of discursive strategies that commenters adopted to present themselves as experts in their commentary. The (mostly indirect) use of category entitlements (implicitly claiming themselves as expert) and the presentation of one’s argument as factual (based on direct or indirect technical knowledge or common sense) emerged as common ways in which readers made claims to expertise, both among the supporters and among the sceptics of climate change science. Our findings indicate that expertise is a fluid concept, constructed in diverse ways, with important implications for public engagement with climate change science. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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