Abstract

CID, Carmen Patricia Andrade Del. Environmental information at public space of print press: A longitudinal study about its referring. OBS* [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.4, pp.151-170. ISSN 1646-5954.

Given the importance of information relevant to the environment, this study aims to analyze two periods of public use of enviromental information: 2012 and 2013. The first endeavour looks at information from the media on environmental issues and how it influences social thinking and critical reflection according to Agenda 21 (UN, 1992). The second analysis describes the theoretical support of the scope of the information broadcasted by the media considering two posible scenarios of the use of public space: 1) as citizen’s custody 2) as institutional support of political power. The proposition holds that the 80 years and more of the ruling of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Veracruz, has left its mark on the dissimination of information about politics, and wonders what happens in the public arena of environmental information. The study provides the results of a comparison of the performance of the regional presses on environmental issues in 2012 and 2103. The final discussion reflects on the important role of the media in the construction of reality, and therefore the journalist as the first subject to be involved in profound changes in lifestyle, social organization, forms of thought, knowledge and ethics.

Keywords : Environmental News; Environmental Information; Print Media; Public Information.

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