Poberezhskaya, Marianna

Research Topic

Contemporary media and the construction of anthropogenic climate change discourse in the Russian Federation

During the last 20 years Russia has gone through major changes starting with the emergence of a new form of state, regime and ideology. The ‘new’ Russia has entered the international arena where it has started to work on taking its strong stand on all-important international issues. Struggling with economic and social difficulties, it has not always followed global trends. It took about 7 years for Russia to ratify one of the world’s most important documents on the regulation of GHG emissions in the Kyoto Protocol. Furthermore, following signing it in 2004 Russia has not done much in accordance with the protocol.

My project is devoted to the analysis of contemporary media coverage of prevalent environmental issues, the contemporary discourse which is constructed to represent such issues and the subsequent influence on how environmental problems are perceived. As a case study I am going to use the media policy of the Russian Federation on climate change. By analysing the amount and quality of texts on this topic, which were produced in British national newspapers and influential Russian papers in the last couple of years, I will investigate a number of questions including: 'what discourse is formed by Russian mass media in covering the climate change problems?' and ‘who is influencing this discourse?’ I also would like to spend some time finding out whether certain perceptions of environmental issues by the public leads to certain actions or non-actions by the state and business sectors or not.

Research Supervisors

Dr Matthew Rendall and Dr Mathew Humphrey

Primary Funding Source

Self Funded

 

Research Centre

The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice

 

Research Interests

• Media studies
• Environment
• Russian Foreign Policy