Media Representation of Climate Change in the Global South: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil
To begin with, I examine media portrayal of climate change across the Global South, and in particular three countries; Pakistan, Nigeria and Brazil. It probes the description and rousing of climate change in news media, and the information of how environment-related news is filtered by the national and regional context. In this study, the patterns of narratives of climate change, role of the segments of the government and international actors, and the control of global media, are considered using a content analysis approach to news coverage of these countries. Further to that, the study also looks deeply into the perception of people regarding the credibility of climate change news and the impacts of fake news on making public opinion on the same. The findings also provide clues into how countries which are typically disproportionally affected by the impacts of climate change portray such impacts.
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(1) Sher Baz Khan
Research Fellow, Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, Technical University Dortmund, Germany.
(2) Muhammad Bilal
Assistant Registrar, National Defense University (NDU), Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA : Khan, S. B., & Bilal, M. (2025). Media Representation of Climate Change in the Global South: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil. Global Social Sciences Review, X(I), 182-191. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).16
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CHICAGO : Khan, Sher Baz, and Muhammad Bilal. 2025. "Media Representation of Climate Change in the Global South: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil." Global Social Sciences Review, X (I): 182-191 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).16
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HARVARD : KHAN, S. B. & BILAL, M. 2025. Media Representation of Climate Change in the Global South: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil. Global Social Sciences Review, X, 182-191.
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MHRA : Khan, Sher Baz, and Muhammad Bilal. 2025. "Media Representation of Climate Change in the Global South: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil." Global Social Sciences Review, X: 182-191
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MLA : Khan, Sher Baz, and Muhammad Bilal. "Media Representation of Climate Change in the Global South: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil." Global Social Sciences Review, X.I (2025): 182-191 Print.
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OXFORD : Khan, Sher Baz and Bilal, Muhammad (2025), "Media Representation of Climate Change in the Global South: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil", Global Social Sciences Review, X (I), 182-191
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TURABIAN : Khan, Sher Baz, and Muhammad Bilal. "Media Representation of Climate Change in the Global South: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil." Global Social Sciences Review X, no. I (2025): 182-191. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).16