Risk Journalism between Transnational Politics and Climate Change

This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative `public' interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates. The authors propose a framework of `cosmopolitan loops,' which addresses [...]
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This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative `public' interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates. The authors propose a framework of `cosmopolitan loops,' which addresses three major transformations in journalistic practice: the availability of `fluid' webs of data which situate journalistic practice in a transnational arena; the increased involvement of journalists from developing countries in a transnationally interdependent sphere; and the increased awareness of a larger interconnected globalized `risk' dimension of even local issues which shapes a new sphere of news `horizons.' The authors draw on interviews with journalists to demonstrate that the construction of climate change `issues' is increasingly situated in an emerging dimension of journalistic interconnectivity with climate actors across local, global and digital arenas and through physical and digital spaces of flows.