Linny Bieber

Linny Bieber, M.A., is a doctoral student at the Graduate School Media and Communication. In her PhD thesis she analyses the Chinese climate change debate from a public sphere perspective.

Linny Bieber (born 1983), M.A., studied Journalism and Communication Sciences and Sinology at the University of Hamburg. In her Master thesis she analysed the German press coverage of China in 2008, conducting a quantitative content analysis of three Chinese incidences: the Tibet uprisal, the Sichuan earthquake and the Olympic Games in 2008.
Since October 2010 she is a PhD student at the Graduate School Media and Communication, University of Hamburg. In her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla she examines the Chinese climate change communication from a public sphere perspective.

Forschungsfeld

How does the People's Republic of China, hugest carbon dioxide emitter in the world,
reacts to climate change? In this PhD thesis this question will be addressed by analysing the climate change communication of Media and social actors in the Chinese society. The theoretical framework is a self-developed new model of Chinese public sphere that is not based on normative Western democratic principles but takes the specific Chinese context into account in which censorship and investigative journalism co-exist. Positioned in Journalism and Communication Sciences this thesis also includes Chinese research literature. The empirical part of this research project is divided into a exploratory qualitative content analysis and a quantitative content analysis of Chinese PR communication and newspaper articles on climate change.

Keywords: Climate Change Coverage, Climate Change Communication, Environmental Communication, People's Republic of China, Public Sphere, Content Analysis

Buch-Veröffentlichungen

Linny Bieber (2011): China in der deutschen Berichterstattung 2008. Eine multiperspektivische Inhaltsanalyse. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften