Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Role of Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion

Dr. David Robbins:

There is no such evidence. There is not a lot of funding available for media research in general. It would be great to be able to do follow-up research on the people who have been to these workshops and so on. There is no answer based on evidence. Anecdotally, from speaking to people who have done the various workshops and so on, there is a huge drive in journalism to ask how the industry approached an issue last year or what the industry normally does in certain cases. Journalists appreciate the prompt to stop and think about these matters. In some of the courses, we have gone outside the box and brought in stuff about eco-cinema and taken different humanities approaches. I thought that was not going to down well with hard, cynical journalists but they loved the array of different ways of thinking about talking about climate change and taking different approaches to it. I was surprised by that.

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