SOURCE STRATEGIES AND THE MEDIATIZATION OF CLIMATE-CHANGE

A wide approach to the problem of science-media relations is taken in this study of the visibility of science in three >European countries. Differences of national cultures within France, Germany and Belgium hod the key to the analysis. This paper explores the impact on the media's representation of climate change that derives from the variations in the balance of power between the press, its scientific sources and other actors, especially pressure groups whoa have interest in how science is represented. France and Germany are shown to have very different approaches scignificantly in distinctive models of the role of media held by scinetists. These models look to be based in what is termed a "spontaneous media sociology" that frame the webs of relations between media and their sources and have a feedback effect oin them.