Сlimate Change Discourse in the Russian Mass Media

Student: Paimulkina Mariia

Educational Programme: Integrated Communications (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The research is devoted to the climate change discourse in the Russian mass media within the context of one of the most actual areas of the climate agenda in Russia – the carbon tax. In the theoretical part of the work, the current trends of Russian climate policy were considered, approaches to the study of the formation of climate discourse by the mass media on the basis of framing theory were observed. In the empirical part, the quantitative and qualitative content analysis of publications in 10 Russian mass media was carried out. The data allowed us to understand how the climate change discourse is framed in the Russian mass media, to identify the dominant frames and drivers of frames, and to consider the carbon tax in the context of environmental or political-economic consequences discussing.

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