Role of the media

Key Papers
Arbieu, U., G. Chapron, C. Astaras, N. Bunnefeld, S. Harkins, Y. Iliopoulos, M. Mehring, I. Reinhardt, and T. Mueller. 2021. News selection and framing: the media as a stakeholder in human-carnivore coexistence. Environmental Research Letters. Download
Arbieu, U., K. Helsper, M. Dadvar, T. Mueller, and A. Niamir. 2021. Natural Language Processing as a tool to evaluate emotions in conservation conflicts. Biological Conservation 256:109030. External resource
Athreya, V., A. Srivathsa, M. Puri, K. K. Karanth, N. S. Kumar, and K. U. Karanth. 2015. Spotted in the news: using media reports to examine leopard distribution, depredation, and management practices outside protected areas in southern India. Plos One 10:e0142647. Download
Barua, M. 2010. Whose issue? Representations of human-elephant conflict in Indian and international media. Science Communication 32:55-75. External resource
Beall, J. M., L. D. Pharr, R. von Furstenberg, A. Barber, W. R. Casola, A. Vaughn, M. N. Peterson, and L. R. Larson. 2022. The influence of YouTube videos on human tolerance of sharks. Animal Conservation. Download
Bhatia, S., V. Athreya, R. Grenyer, and D. W. Macdonald. 2013. Understanding the role of representations of human–leopard conflict in Mumbai through media‐content analysis. Conservation Biology 27:588-594. External resource
Bombieri, G., V. Nanni, M. d. M. Delgado, J. M. Fedriani, J. V. López-Bao, P. Pedrini, and V. Penteriani. 2018. Content analysis of media reports on predator attacks on humans: toward an understanding of human risk perception and predator acceptance. Bioscience 68:577-584. Download
Bornatowski, H., N. E. Hussey, C. L. S. Sampaio, and R. R. P. Barreto. 2019. Geographic bias in the media reporting of aquatic versus terrestrial human predator conflicts and its conservation implications. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. Download
Campos-Arceiz, A., J. A. de la Torre, K. Wei, X. O. Wu, Y. Zhu, M. Zhao, S. Chen, Y. Bai, R. T. Corlett, and F. Chen. 2021. The return of the elephants: how two groups of dispersing elephants attracted the attention of billions and what can we learn from their behavior. Conservation Letters n/a:e12836. Download
Corbett, J. B. 1995. When wildlife make the news: an analysis of rural and urban north-central US newspapers. Public Understanding of Science 4:397-410. External resource
Dayer, A. A., A. Williams, E. Cosbar, and M. Racey. 2019. Blaming threatened species: media portrayal of human–wildlife conflict. Oryx 53:265-272. External resource
Delibes-Mateos, M. 2020. Wolf media coverage in the region of Castilla y León (Spain): variations over time and in two contrasting socio-ecological settings. Animals 10:736. Download
Gao, Y., A. T. L. Lee, Y. Luo, J. S. Alexander, X. Shi, T. Sangpo, and S. G. Clark. 2023. Large carnivore encounters through the lens of mobile videos on social media. Conservation Science and Practice n/a:e12907. Download
Gore, M. L., and B. A. Knuth. 2009. Mass media effect on the operating environment of a wildlife-related risk-communication campaign. Journal of Wildlife Management 73:1407-1413, 1407. External resource
Happer, C., and G. Philo. 2013. The role of the media in the construction of public belief and social change. Journal of social and political psychology 1:321-336. Download
Hathaway, R. S., A.-E. M. Bryant, M. M. Draheim, P. Vinod, S. Limaye, and V. Athreya. 2017. From fear to understanding: changes in media representations of leopard incidences after media awareness workshops in Mumbai, India. Journal of Urban Ecology 3 Download
Houston, M. J., J. T. Bruskotter, and D. Fan. 2010. Attitudes toward wolves in the United States and Canada: a content analysis of the print news media, 1999–2008. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 15:389-403. External resource
Hughes, C., L. Foote, N. T. Yarmey, C. Hwang, J. Thorlakson, and S. Nielsen. 2020. From human invaders to problem bears: a media content analysis of grizzly bear conservation. Conservation Science and Practice 2:e176. Download
Jacobson, S. K., C. Langin, J. S. Carlton, and L. L. Kaid. 2012. Content analysis of newspaper coverage of the Florida panther. Conservation Biology 26:171-179. External resource
Marino, F., S. L. Crowley, N. A. Williams Foley, R. A. McDonald, and D. J. Hodgson. 2023. Stakeholder discourse coalitions and polarisation in the hen harrier conservation debate in news media. People and Nature. Download
McCagh, C., J. Sneddon, and D. Blache. 2015. Killing sharks: the media’s role in public and political response to fatal human–shark interactions. Marine Policy 62:271-278. External resource
Muter, B. A., M. L. Gore, K. S. Gledhill, C. Lamont, and C. Huveneers. 2013. Australian and U.S. news media portrayal of sharks and their conservation. Conservation Biology 27:187-196. External resource
Muter, B. A., M. L. Gore, and S. J. Riley. 2009. From victim to perpetrator: evolution of risk frames related to human–cormorant conflict in the Great Lakes. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 14:366-379. External resource
Nanni, V., E. Caprio, G. Bombieri, S. Schiaparelli, C. Chiorri, S. Mammola, P. Pedrini, and V. Penteriani. 2020. Social media and large carnivores: sharing biased news on attacks on humans. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8. Download
Niemiec, R., R. E. W. Berl, M. Gonzalez, T. Teel, C. Camara, M. Collins, J. Salerno, K. Crooks, C. Schultz, S. Breck, and D. Hoag. 2020. Public perspectives and media reporting of wolf reintroduction in Colorado. Peerj 8:e9074. Download
Poudel, S., J. P. Twining, R. C. Stedman, S. K. Ghimire, and A. K. Fuller. 2023. Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) attack occurrence on humans in Nepal. People and Nature. Download
Ribeiro, Y.G.G., Bastos, R.M., Silva, B.O., Marchini, S., Morais, R.B., Catapani, M.L., Corrêa, P.L.P., da Rocha, R.L.A., da SilvaA.M. and Ferraz K.M.P.M.B. 2023. Social media data from two iconic Neotropical big cats: can this translate to action? Frontiers in Conservation Science, 4. Download
Rust, N. A. 2015. Media framing of financial mechanisms for resolving human–predator conflict in Namibia. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 20:440-453. Download
Siemer, W. F., D. J. Decker, and J. Shanahan. 2007. Media frames for black bear management stories during issue emergence in New York. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 12:89-100. External resource
Wang, Y., and H. Mumby. 2022. Differences in reporting human-wild boar interactions in Chinese and English news media. Human Dimensions of Wildlife:1-16. External resource
Wolch, J. R., A. Gullo, and U. Lassiter. 1997. Changing attitudes toward California's cougars. Society & Animals 5:95-116. Download
Zscheischler, J., and J. Friedrich. 2022. The wolf (Canis lupus) as a symbol of an urban–rural divide? Results from a media discourse analysis on the human–wolf conflict in Germany. Environmental Management. Download
Collection
Frontiers in Conservation Science: Conservation and the Media. External resource