TY - JOUR
T1 - Contesting Science by Appealing to Its Norms
T2 - Readers Discuss Climate Science in the Daily Mail
AU - Jaspal, Rusi
AU - Nerlich, Brigitte
AU - Koteyko, Nelya
PY - 2012/9/25
Y1 - 2012/9/25
N2 - This study examines the rhetorical aspects of social contestation of climate change in reader comments published in the Daily Mail, subsequent to climategate. The following themes are reported: (1) denigration of climate scientists to contest hegemonic representations, (2) delegitimization of pro–climate change individuals by disassociation from science, and (3) outright denial: rejecting hegemonic social representations of climate change. The study outlines the discursive strategies employed in order to construct social representations of climate change, to contest alternative representations, and to convince others of the validity of these representations. It examines how social representations of science are formed, maintained, and disseminated.
AB - This study examines the rhetorical aspects of social contestation of climate change in reader comments published in the Daily Mail, subsequent to climategate. The following themes are reported: (1) denigration of climate scientists to contest hegemonic representations, (2) delegitimization of pro–climate change individuals by disassociation from science, and (3) outright denial: rejecting hegemonic social representations of climate change. The study outlines the discursive strategies employed in order to construct social representations of climate change, to contest alternative representations, and to convince others of the validity of these representations. It examines how social representations of science are formed, maintained, and disseminated.
U2 - 10.1177/1075547012459274
DO - 10.1177/1075547012459274
M3 - Article
SN - 1075-5470
VL - 35
SP - 383
EP - 410
JO - Science Communication
JF - Science Communication
IS - 3
ER -