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Record W2322249842 · doi:10.1386/macp.9.1.47_1

Journalism, climate science and the public: Towards better practices

2013· article· en· W2322249842 on OpenAlexaff
Steve McIlwaine

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Media and Cultural Politics · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicClimate Change Communication and Perception
Canadian institutionsWorld Federation of Science Journalists
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFraming (construction)JournalismClimate scienceClimate changePolitical sciencePublic relationsPublic engagementNews mediaSociologyEnvironmental ethicsGeographyLaw

Abstract

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Abstract Media reporting and analysis of climate-change science is a fundamental and vital requirement for public understanding and engagement in the increasingly serious issue of global climate change. However, journalists have largely failed to come to grips with the science and its practitioners: they have generally failed to obtain an adequate understanding of what the science is about, they have used inappropriate reporting and framing techniques and have been unduly influenced by vested interests. The result is that media audiences have been left confused, apathetic and even hostile about climate-change news. This article analyses the major shortcomings in media reporting of climate-change science and proposes means by which journalists can, without great difficulty, better serve their audiences, their organizations and themselves in this area of major professional importance.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.747
Threshold uncertainty score0.980

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.310
GPT teacher head0.470
Teacher spread0.160 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations9
Published2013
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