Comparing Cuban and South Florida Spanish-Language Media Coverage of Sea-Level Rise

Juliet Pinto, Mercedes Vigón

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Abstract

How do foreign-language media catering largely to immigrant communities compare to home-country media, when discussing an environmental issue of equally high salience to both audiences? This chapter compares coverage of sea-level rise by Spanish-language media in South Florida with that of Cuban state media and with blogger coverage of the issue, as a preliminary means of understanding how very different news systems communicate an issue that is of urgency to their audiences. South Florida and Cuba share important cultural heritage, but there are also stark differences between their media and between their economic and political realities. Media coverage of this shared threat in South Florida Spanish-language media and Cuban media provided examples of these contrasts.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationPalgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages47-63
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
ISSN (Print)2634-6451
ISSN (Electronic)2634-646X

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Communication
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • General Environmental Science
  • Linguistics and Language

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