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U.S. ETHICS AND GLOBAL EFFECTS: PUBLIC RADIO’S STRUGGLE TO COVER
CLIMATE CHANGE FOR A CONSUMER AUDIENCE
by
Sara R. Harris
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM)
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Sara R. Harris
Object Description
| Title | U.S. ethics and global effects: public radio's struggle to cover climate change for a consumer audience |
| Author | Harris, Sara R. |
| Author email | audiopostales@gmail.com; saraharr@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Specialized Journalism |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-03-25 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-05-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Suro, Roberto |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sañudo-Wilhemy, Sergio Cole, KC |
| Abstract | An international consensus of scientists projects that poor people around the world will be disproportionately affected by climate change. More than half of the world population lives in poverty and lacks the means to adapt to the adverse effects of a warming planet. Climate change brings with it some of the most complicated ethical issues of environmental justice that the world has faced to date. The United States emits more heat-trapping gasses per capita than any other nation. Much of those emissions are byproducts of individualized transportation and of the production of goods consumed in the industrialized world while the effects of those emissions unequally affect less-industrialized populations. Accountability journalism can examine this relationship as a strategy for upsetting this power dynamic. The key to the public in the United States accepting responsibility for climate change lies in people understanding more than the fact of climate change- it lies in understanding the ethical issues involved. In this essay, I offer a lens for those who work in accountability journalism in the United States to consider their role in bridging the gap between public knowing and public caring about the inherent inequalities of climate change. |
| Keyword | climate change and the U.S. media; public broadcasting and consumer audience; ethics and climate change coverage; environmental justice and climate change; public opinion and climate change; sustainability and an environmental justice framework |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3015 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Harris, Sara R. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Harris-3655 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Harris-3655.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | U.S. ETHICS AND GLOBAL EFFECTS: PUBLIC RADIO’S STRUGGLE TO COVER CLIMATE CHANGE FOR A CONSUMER AUDIENCE by Sara R. Harris A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Sara R. Harris |
