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Framing Forest Fires and Environmental Activism: a Storytelling Contest about Human Intervention in Nature

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    Identificador: imarina:5938158
    Autors:
    Castello, EnricMontagut, Marta
    Resum:
    This article focuses on the processes of sense-making of forest fires in a Mediterranean context. The authors use a textual approach to compare media framing with activist organizational storytelling. The authors conducted a frame analysis in two major daily newspapers in Catalonia (La Vanguardia and El Periodico de Catalunya) during three summers and compared the results with the stories from four leading activist and volunteering organizations that came out of in-depth interviews with their members, one focus group and published materials. The results identified up to five major mainstream media frames, among which were stories focusing on agricultural risk, climate change and weather conditions; imprudent and negligent attitudes; inappropriate fuel management and woodland conditions; and arson. The natural self-regulatory frame was present as part of the discourse of resilience but almost residual. Some journalism focused on the spectacular nature of the events and their dramatic impact, which led to some degree of mediatization of wildfires. The organizations problematized these frames and discussed about the appropriateness of human intervention to prevent forest fires. The results also revealed that activists observed the issue from a broader complexity, replicating frames on structural responsibility instead of individual responsibility allocation. The authors point out that if wildfires are to be better understood and dealt with more in-depth knowledge is required of different stakeholders' approaches to preventing forest fires.
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    Autor segons l'article: Castello, Enric; Montagut, Marta;
    Departament: Estudis de Comunicació
    Autor/s de la URV: Castelló Cogollos, Enric / Montagut Calvo, Marta
    Paraules clau: Coverage Environmental activism Framing nature Operationalizations Organizational storytelling Politics Risk communication Wildfire mediatization Wildfire prevention
    Resum: This article focuses on the processes of sense-making of forest fires in a Mediterranean context. The authors use a textual approach to compare media framing with activist organizational storytelling. The authors conducted a frame analysis in two major daily newspapers in Catalonia (La Vanguardia and El Periodico de Catalunya) during three summers and compared the results with the stories from four leading activist and volunteering organizations that came out of in-depth interviews with their members, one focus group and published materials. The results identified up to five major mainstream media frames, among which were stories focusing on agricultural risk, climate change and weather conditions; imprudent and negligent attitudes; inappropriate fuel management and woodland conditions; and arson. The natural self-regulatory frame was present as part of the discourse of resilience but almost residual. Some journalism focused on the spectacular nature of the events and their dramatic impact, which led to some degree of mediatization of wildfires. The organizations problematized these frames and discussed about the appropriateness of human intervention to prevent forest fires. The results also revealed that activists observed the issue from a broader complexity, replicating frames on structural responsibility instead of individual responsibility allocation. The authors point out that if wildfires are to be better understood and dealt with more in-depth knowledge is required of different stakeholders' approaches to preventing forest fires.
    Àrees temàtiques: Ciencias sociales Communication Comunicación, información y documentación científica Revistas de ciencias sociales Revistas de filología y linüística
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: marta.montagut@urv.cat enric.castello@urv.cat
    ISSN: 23867876
    Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0002-0270-9983 0000-0003-2154-2450
    Data d'alta del registre: 2024-01-27
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enllaç font original: https://revistas.unav.edu/index.php/communication-and-society/article/view/35433
    Referència a l'article segons font original: Communication & Society-Spain. 32 (4): 291-306
    Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Castello, Enric; Montagut, Marta; (2019). Framing Forest Fires and Environmental Activism: a Storytelling Contest about Human Intervention in Nature. Communication & Society-Spain, 32(4), 291-306. DOI: 10.15581/003.32.4.291-306
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    DOI de l'article: 10.15581/003.32.4.291-306
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2019
    Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications
  • Paraules clau:

    Communication
    Coverage
    Environmental activism
    Framing nature
    Operationalizations
    Organizational storytelling
    Politics
    Risk communication
    Wildfire mediatization
    Wildfire prevention
    Ciencias sociales
    Communication
    Comunicación, información y documentación científica
    Revistas de ciencias sociales
    Revistas de filología y linüística
    23867876
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