FRAMING CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS ON INTERNET MEDIA

This study aims to identify how online news frame climate change and argue the relations between these frames and risk perception of public. In order to collect data, “climate change” and “global warming” phrases were searched on Google news website between 20-27th of March 2018. 41 news from different websites were identified. The news were analysed by using MAXQDA 18. Results showed that the news use catasthropic future expectations and indiviual responsobility frame more than the other frames. This situation might lead to confusion, because if the future is that in darkness, how only individual level action prompts as the main solution. Therefore, broader frames can be more helpful to raise public awareness