Catherine Happer

University of Glasgow, Sociology, Faculty Member

Climate Change +16

Address: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom

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Papers

Understanding Abusive Behaviour Between Online and Offline Group Discussions

Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Hacking the Archive: Media, memory, and history in the post-trust era

Oxford University Press, 2021

Trump’s Media War

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Foreword to “How Long Have We Got?” by Peter Ritchie Calder

McGill-Queen's University Press, Sep 1, 2021

Belief in Change: The Role of Media and Communications in Driving Action on Climate Change

Climate Change and the Humanities, 2017

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Election 2015: Conservatives gain in England, SNP rampant across Scotland – experts react

Results appear to be backing an exit poll for the 2015 UK election that predicted a better than e... more Results appear to be backing an exit poll for the 2015 UK election that predicted a better than expected performance for the Conservative Party. It suggested the Tories will win 316 seats – not far short to the 326 seats needed for a majority. Meanwhile, Labour has gone backwards, falling to a predicted 239 (down from 256); the SNP has made record gains in Scotland, winning 56 seats; and the Liberal Democrats are in freefall

Models of media analysis: a climate-change study

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Media, crime and punishment in the digital age

There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consu... more There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. fromMedia, crime and punishment in the digital age When punishment is featured in news reporting of crime, the emphasis is almost always on prisons. Do media discussions of community sanctions change public views? The media discourse around crime and punishment is emotionally charged, often focusing on sensationalised accounts of high-level criminality, such as murders, which necessarily promote the dominance of the prison as a form of punishment. Researchers have argued that this focus on very serious crime has hardened punitive attitudes in the public– though such attitudes are perhaps not as punitive as some politicians tend to assume they are. Media reporting of community sanctions, on the other hand, has been much more limited. But research shows that there is a tendency to portray them as inferior to prison (Hayes 2013). I...

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The mainstream media in a ‘post-truth’ world

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Who benefits from media coverage of climate change? Not the audience

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Weaponizing Reality: An Introduction to Trump’s War on the Media

Trump’s Media War, 2018

Donald Trump wasn’t just a sign of a broken reality; he was the beneficiary of it. Mainstream con... more

The sociology of the mass media: Circuits of communication and structures of power

Chatham House Report: Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption

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Weaponizing Reality: An Introduction to Trump’s War on the Media

Trump’s Media War, 2018

Donald Trump wasn’t just a sign of a broken reality; he was the beneficiary of it. Mainstream con... more

Punishment, legitimacy and taste: The role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions

Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 2018

Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also ... more Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also been some attention to media representations of them, there has been no serious examination of the relationships between media and public understandings. This article presents an interdisciplinary analysis (drawing on sociology, media and communications and organizational studies) of the potential influence of media consumption practices on penal tastes among diverse participant groups. We aim to develop a clearer understanding of how these processes shape the public legitimacy of community sanctions. In particular, we report on original research employing innovative methodologies to explore the dynamic set of practices deployed by audiences in the process of making meaningful the media landscape on punishment and community sanctions. Our findings offer some confirmation of the primacy of the prison in the popular imagination; the media profile of community sanctions is delimited by thei...

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New approaches to understanding the role of the news media in the formation of public attitudes and behaviours on climate change

European Journal of Communication, 2015

This article examines the role of news media on climate change and sustainable energy in the shap... more This article examines the role of news media on climate change and sustainable energy in the shaping of audience opinions and beliefs and the possible relation of these to behaviours. It reports on a series of studies conducted between 2011 and 2014 which develop existing approaches to audience reception analyses by using innovative methodologies which focus specifically on the negotiation of new information in response to existing beliefs, perceptions and behavioural patterns – both in the short and long term. Audience groups are introduced to new information, to which the range of responses is examined. This approach allows for an exploration of the interplay of socio-political and personal factors as well as the identification of the potential informational triggers for change. The findings suggest that media accounts are likely to have a shaping role in relation to behaviours under a range of specific and coinciding conditions.

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Climate Change and Energy Security: Assessing the Impact of Information and its Delivery on Attitudes and Behaviour

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Science and Technology Committee: Joint Written Evidence [Communicating Climate Science]

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Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security

This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines ... more This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address fundamental questions about how to adequately inform the public and develop policy in areas of great social importance when public distrust of politicians is so widespread. The new methods of attitudinal research pioneered here combined with the attention to climate change have application and resonance beyond the UK and indeed carry global import.