Policy Networks: Journalism, IPCC, and Stakeholder Networks

• In Event: Journalism and IPCC AR5: A Global Perspective

Abstract

This presentation looks at the interface between journalism and local (national) policy networks in the context of IPCC AR5. Drawing from science and technology studies (STS) and the notions of boundary organization, co-production, translations and -- in particular -- the idea of “mass-mediated expertise” (Petersen et al. 2010) as “informal policy advice”, the presentation opens in-depth questions about the dynamics of domestication and mediation of climate science to climate politics. The presentation will reflect on stakeholder views concerning the dynamics of which aspects or knowledge of IPCC reports are emphasized or made prominent? It will also look at the domestication or knowledge-brokering of IPCC reports in the media and the interplay between policy networks and journalism in this brokering?
 

Authors

• Midori Aoyagi, National Institute for Environmental Studies

• Shinichiro Asayama, National Institute for Environmental Studies