Between Narratives and Climate Justice: Globo and UOL’s Coverage of Activism at the COPs
Abstract Although climate change is increasingly covered in the media, the narratives surrounding socio-environmental issues have never been neutral or unified. This study examines how the largest Brazilian media conglomerates, Globo and UOL, covered the popular protests during the 26th and 27th edi...
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| description | Abstract Although climate change is increasingly covered in the media, the narratives surrounding socio-environmental issues have never been neutral or unified. This study examines how the largest Brazilian media conglomerates, Globo and UOL, covered the popular protests during the 26th and 27th editions of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (Conference of the Parties - COP). We intended to identify the main themes of the news articles published on these portals regarding the protests and discuss them through the lens of climate justice. Content analysis assisted by unsupervised Artificial Intelligence (AI) was used to cluster 45 news articles. The results reveal three distinct thematic clusters: “Activist Greta Thunberg”, “Popular Demands”, and “Commitments of the Parties”. Except for one news article, the narratives found do not promote climate justice. Additionally, more than half of the news articles were from international agencies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cdcdc9d65c514b43a3b266c520713a6e2025-08-20T02:41:29ZengAssociação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ambiente e Sociedade (ANPPAS)Ambiente & Sociedade1414-753X2025-07-012810.1590/1809-4422asoc00932vu28l3oaBetween Narratives and Climate Justice: Globo and UOL’s Coverage of Activism at the COPsTainá Yumi Patrianihttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0047-5332Ergon Cugler de Moraes Silvahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5753-1705Abstract Although climate change is increasingly covered in the media, the narratives surrounding socio-environmental issues have never been neutral or unified. This study examines how the largest Brazilian media conglomerates, Globo and UOL, covered the popular protests during the 26th and 27th editions of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (Conference of the Parties - COP). We intended to identify the main themes of the news articles published on these portals regarding the protests and discuss them through the lens of climate justice. Content analysis assisted by unsupervised Artificial Intelligence (AI) was used to cluster 45 news articles. The results reveal three distinct thematic clusters: “Activist Greta Thunberg”, “Popular Demands”, and “Commitments of the Parties”. Except for one news article, the narratives found do not promote climate justice. Additionally, more than half of the news articles were from international agencies.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-753X2025000100311&lng=en&tlng=enProtestsclimate justicemedialexical analysisCOP |
| spellingShingle | Tainá Yumi Patriani Ergon Cugler de Moraes Silva Between Narratives and Climate Justice: Globo and UOL’s Coverage of Activism at the COPs Ambiente & Sociedade Protests climate justice media lexical analysis COP |
| title | Between Narratives and Climate Justice: Globo and UOL’s Coverage of Activism at the COPs |
| title_full | Between Narratives and Climate Justice: Globo and UOL’s Coverage of Activism at the COPs |
| title_fullStr | Between Narratives and Climate Justice: Globo and UOL’s Coverage of Activism at the COPs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Between Narratives and Climate Justice: Globo and UOL’s Coverage of Activism at the COPs |
| title_short | Between Narratives and Climate Justice: Globo and UOL’s Coverage of Activism at the COPs |
| title_sort | between narratives and climate justice globo and uol s coverage of activism at the cops |
| topic | Protests climate justice media lexical analysis COP |
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