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Julia Schleisiek
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Media Interpretations of Climate Change: How Bay Area News Agencies report about Climate Change
Climate change would hardly be recognizable for the general public if media stations were not reporting on this global phenomenon: Only through newspaper articles, television, radio reports and the Internet is the scientific knowledge of geologists, physicists and meteorologists transmitted into local everyday life. The research project, therefore, is not interested in the physical phenomenon of climate change itself, but examines one of its most crucial social dimensions: the generation, compilation and dissemination of climate change knowledge through the media. Focusing on everyday newsroom practices, I seek to investigate how scientific knowledge is prepared, modified and communicated for a non-scientific public.
Julia Schleisiek studied Sociology (Dipl.) in Berlin, Bielefeld and Manchester. Her major is Sociology with an emphasis on Science and Technology, Mass Media and Qualitative Empirical Social Research (Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Ethnography).
