[fb_button] As the Paris talks on climate change receives global media attention, I am reminded by the New York Times this morning of how powerful a news narrative can be once the global frame of reference is melded with the personal accounts of people hit by consequences.In this particular NYT story, three features stand out, one obviously being the theme of climate change itself. The second theme is the way
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We are the world, right?
Notes from the classroom: The importance of being there A lecture with my international students sums up this week, for me. I teach a course in global political communication. I have about eight different nationalities in my class. And this week we were to talk about how the international media frame and cultivate the theme of “global survival issues”; like poverty, climate change, ethnic class division and locked-in despair. Does it
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