Media and Communication Studies

Our world has been changing rapidly during the last two decades. Such processes as globalization and internalization are the key factors contributing to this development. As a result, existing problems of our planet have aggravated and many more appeared. The problem of climate change has acquired unfavourable features. Consequently, researchers around the world have started to predict the future of our planet and the issue of climate change has become an increasingly important theme in the mass media sphere. It is a fact that the mass media is an important mediator (Painter, 2011) between researchers and people. Thus, public awareness in terms of some issues strongly depends on curiosity and honesty of journalists. That is why, I have decided to analyze climate change in the media. Precisely, I focus on the Russian journalism in order to explore the main characteristics of the climate change problematics representation in Russia. In other words, I am interested in the amount of attention given to this global problem in the Russian press