A Comparative Framing Analysis of News Coverage about Climate Change in China and US: The Case of COP in Global Times and New York Times from 2007-2021

Huiteng Huang

doi:10.47297/taposatWSP2633-456921.20220302

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A Comparative Framing Analysis of News Coverage about Climate Change in China and US: The Case of COP in Global Times and New York Times from 2007-2021

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A Comparative Framing Analysis of News Coverage about Climate Change in China and US: The Case of COP in Global Times and New York Times from 2007-2021
A Comparative Framing Analysis of News Coverage about Climate Change in China and US: The Case of COP in Global Times and New York Times from 2007-2021
Communication University of China
Vol. 3, Issue 2, Pages: 32-41(2022)
Published： 2022 ，
DOI：10.47297/taposatWSP2633-456921.20220302
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HUITENG HUANG. (2022). A Comparative Framing Analysis of News Coverage about Climate Change in China and US: The Case of COP in Global Times and New York Times from 2007-2021. Theory and Practice of Science and Technology, 3(2), 32-41..
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HUITENG HUANG. (2022). A Comparative Framing Analysis of News Coverage about Climate Change in China and US: The Case of COP in Global Times and New York Times from 2007-2021. Theory and Practice of Science and Technology, 3(2), 32-41.. DOI： 10.47297/taposatWSP2633-456921.20220302.

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This study aims at understanding China and U.S. media coverage of United Nations Climate Change Conference from the perspective of framework. Analyzing different frames and framing mechanisms applied in the reports

the study looks into news stories in Global Times and New York Times during a 15-year period. The analysis found that the news discourse present a near-uniformity in terms of reports quantity

a common tendency to use definition and attribution frames and a distinctive focus on topics.

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FrameChinaUSCOPClimate change

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