Eide Elisabeth, Kunelius Risto
Department of Journalism and Communication Studies at OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Clim Change. 2021;169(1-2):6. doi: 10.1007/s10584-021-03211-z. Epub 2021 Nov 2.
Drawing from interviews with 31 young leading climate activists from 23 countries across the world this article aims to capture the contribution of the recent youth climate movement to communicating climate science and politics. We show that from the point of view of the youth activists, the movement powerfully connects personal and local experiences and emotions with climate science. This has enabled the activists to construct an authentic, generational and temporal identity that has helped them to carve out an autonomous position and voice with considerable moral authority among existing climate policy actors. Claiming to represent the future generation, we conclude that activists have offered an important added value to climate science as new ambassadors for scientific consensus and climate mitigation. The youth movement and the added value it brings communicating climate science is an example of the dynamics of the formation of "relational publics" and emphasizes the need to understand better the networked communication landscape where climate politics is debated.
本文通过对来自全球23个国家的31位年轻杰出气候活动家的访谈，旨在探讨近期青年气候运动在传播气候科学与政治方面所做的贡献。我们发现，从青年活动家的角度来看，该运动有力地将个人及当地的经历与情感同气候科学联系起来。这使活动家们构建了一种真实、代际且具有时效性的身份认同，帮助他们在现有的气候政策行动者中赢得了具有相当道德权威的自主地位和话语权。活动家们声称代表着未来一代，我们由此得出结论，他们作为科学共识和气候缓解的新大使，为气候科学增添了重要价值。青年运动及其在传播气候科学方面所带来的附加值，是“关系性公众”形成动态过程的一个例证，强调了更好地理解气候政治辩论所处的网络传播格局的必要性。
