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Recent calls in environmental communication literature suggest researchers should understand the relationships between media message content, message construction, and audience effects. This thesis analyzed environmental advertising frames over time to inform strategic environmental communication research and practice. The study was a media content analysis guided by framing theory. Framing theory asserts the construction of media messages involves the selection and salience of particular message characteristics (Entman, 1993). Thus, the analysis examined the characteristics of environmental advertisements (N=449) published in Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News and World Report in 1990, 2000, and 2010. Advertisements were classified based on whether the environmental appeal was issue-specific (e.g., pollution, species/habitat protection) or generic. Findings indicate that responsibility frames were overwhelmingly dominant as the strategy used to advertise products, goods and services. The responsibility frame was also prevalent in issue-specific ads. Macro-frames, which attempt to identify organizing lenses through which environmental advertising appeals are advanced, were not present in advertisements at significant levels during the time periods analyzed. The species/habitat protection issue was the dominant issue in 1990, while energy efficiency was the prevalent issue in 2000 and 2010. Advertisements appearing in the newsmagazine pages primarily were sponsored by for-profit organizations. Environmental advertisements had an overwhelmingly positive valence over time. Results have implications for future environmental communication research exploring media content and effects, public opinion and persuasion, and strategic communication practice. / Master of Arts

Este trabalho analisa os sentidos e as estratégias dos discursos das revistas especializadas em meio ambiente, a fim de investigar como a noção de meio ambiente é construída. Tendo em vista que o jornalismo conforma a realidade - selecionando pautas, enfoques e modos de tornar esse conhecimento social um discurso inteligível -, compreende-se que quatro diferentes publicações ambientais ('Terra da Gente, 'Mãe Terra', 'Sustenta!' e 'Aquecimento Global') trazem perspectivas diferentes de uma visão ambiental, ainda que se proponham tratar da mesma temática. Para delinear as semelhanças e divergências entre as revistas, optou-se por usar, de forma livre, o referencial teórico-metodológico da Análise do Discurso Francesa. Além das filiações de sentido, extraídas de Formações Discursivas (FDs) definidas em função da literatura que discute o meio ambiente, verificam-se os sentidos possíveis dos nomes das revistas e as estratégias discursivas que movimentam as intenções dos produtores pensando em seus destinatários. Sem deixar de perceber o contexto e as dificuldades externas à produção, foca-se no jornalismo ambiental apresentado no veículo revista, tanto pelo espaço privilegiado de interpretação, quanto pela dedicação integral que o tema recebe. A pesquisa indica que cada revista fabrica um discurso particular sobre meio ambiente, porém a FD Ecossocial é a predominante no corpus, assim como a mobilização de estratégias de aproximação e de estímulo à mudança de hábitos do leitor. / This paper analyzes the senses and the discursive strategies of environmental newsmagazines in order to investigate how the notion of environment is built for them. Considering that journalism formats reality - selecting agendas, approaches and ways to make this knowledge an understandable social discourse - it is known that four different environmental publications ('Terra da Gente', 'Mãe Terra', 'Sustenta!' and 'Aquecimento Global') will bring different perspectives of an environmental vision, although they intend to address the same subject. To delineate the similarities and differences between the magazines, we decided to use in a free way the theoretical and methodological framework of French Discourse Analysis. The intention is to look for affiliations of sense, extracted from Discoursives Formations (DFs), defined according to the literature which discusses the environment, and evidences about the possible senses in titles of the mentioned magazines, and also the discursive strategies that move the intentions of the producers thinking about the receivers. Considering the context and the external difficulties in the production, there is a focus in environmental journalism present in the magazine as a vehicle, because of a privileged space for interpretation and the dedication that the theme receives. This research indicates that each magazine built a particular discourse about the environment, but the DF Ecossocial is predominant in the samples. The analysis also demonstrates the regular use of strategies to reach the reader and to stimulate them to change their habits.

Este trabalho analisa os sentidos e as estratégias dos discursos das revistas especializadas em meio ambiente, a fim de investigar como a noção de meio ambiente é construída. Tendo em vista que o jornalismo conforma a realidade - selecionando pautas, enfoques e modos de tornar esse conhecimento social um discurso inteligível -, compreende-se que quatro diferentes publicações ambientais ('Terra da Gente, 'Mãe Terra', 'Sustenta!' e 'Aquecimento Global') trazem perspectivas diferentes de uma visão ambiental, ainda que se proponham tratar da mesma temática. Para delinear as semelhanças e divergências entre as revistas, optou-se por usar, de forma livre, o referencial teórico-metodológico da Análise do Discurso Francesa. Além das filiações de sentido, extraídas de Formações Discursivas (FDs) definidas em função da literatura que discute o meio ambiente, verificam-se os sentidos possíveis dos nomes das revistas e as estratégias discursivas que movimentam as intenções dos produtores pensando em seus destinatários. Sem deixar de perceber o contexto e as dificuldades externas à produção, foca-se no jornalismo ambiental apresentado no veículo revista, tanto pelo espaço privilegiado de interpretação, quanto pela dedicação integral que o tema recebe. A pesquisa indica que cada revista fabrica um discurso particular sobre meio ambiente, porém a FD Ecossocial é a predominante no corpus, assim como a mobilização de estratégias de aproximação e de estímulo à mudança de hábitos do leitor. / This paper analyzes the senses and the discursive strategies of environmental newsmagazines in order to investigate how the notion of environment is built for them. Considering that journalism formats reality - selecting agendas, approaches and ways to make this knowledge an understandable social discourse - it is known that four different environmental publications ('Terra da Gente', 'Mãe Terra', 'Sustenta!' and 'Aquecimento Global') will bring different perspectives of an environmental vision, although they intend to address the same subject. To delineate the similarities and differences between the magazines, we decided to use in a free way the theoretical and methodological framework of French Discourse Analysis. The intention is to look for affiliations of sense, extracted from Discoursives Formations (DFs), defined according to the literature which discusses the environment, and evidences about the possible senses in titles of the mentioned magazines, and also the discursive strategies that move the intentions of the producers thinking about the receivers. Considering the context and the external difficulties in the production, there is a focus in environmental journalism present in the magazine as a vehicle, because of a privileged space for interpretation and the dedication that the theme receives. This research indicates that each magazine built a particular discourse about the environment, but the DF Ecossocial is predominant in the samples. The analysis also demonstrates the regular use of strategies to reach the reader and to stimulate them to change their habits.

Este trabalho analisa os sentidos e as estratégias dos discursos das revistas especializadas em meio ambiente, a fim de investigar como a noção de meio ambiente é construída. Tendo em vista que o jornalismo conforma a realidade - selecionando pautas, enfoques e modos de tornar esse conhecimento social um discurso inteligível -, compreende-se que quatro diferentes publicações ambientais ('Terra da Gente, 'Mãe Terra', 'Sustenta!' e 'Aquecimento Global') trazem perspectivas diferentes de uma visão ambiental, ainda que se proponham tratar da mesma temática. Para delinear as semelhanças e divergências entre as revistas, optou-se por usar, de forma livre, o referencial teórico-metodológico da Análise do Discurso Francesa. Além das filiações de sentido, extraídas de Formações Discursivas (FDs) definidas em função da literatura que discute o meio ambiente, verificam-se os sentidos possíveis dos nomes das revistas e as estratégias discursivas que movimentam as intenções dos produtores pensando em seus destinatários. Sem deixar de perceber o contexto e as dificuldades externas à produção, foca-se no jornalismo ambiental apresentado no veículo revista, tanto pelo espaço privilegiado de interpretação, quanto pela dedicação integral que o tema recebe. A pesquisa indica que cada revista fabrica um discurso particular sobre meio ambiente, porém a FD Ecossocial é a predominante no corpus, assim como a mobilização de estratégias de aproximação e de estímulo à mudança de hábitos do leitor. / This paper analyzes the senses and the discursive strategies of environmental newsmagazines in order to investigate how the notion of environment is built for them. Considering that journalism formats reality - selecting agendas, approaches and ways to make this knowledge an understandable social discourse - it is known that four different environmental publications ('Terra da Gente', 'Mãe Terra', 'Sustenta!' and 'Aquecimento Global') will bring different perspectives of an environmental vision, although they intend to address the same subject. To delineate the similarities and differences between the magazines, we decided to use in a free way the theoretical and methodological framework of French Discourse Analysis. The intention is to look for affiliations of sense, extracted from Discoursives Formations (DFs), defined according to the literature which discusses the environment, and evidences about the possible senses in titles of the mentioned magazines, and also the discursive strategies that move the intentions of the producers thinking about the receivers. Considering the context and the external difficulties in the production, there is a focus in environmental journalism present in the magazine as a vehicle, because of a privileged space for interpretation and the dedication that the theme receives. This research indicates that each magazine built a particular discourse about the environment, but the DF Ecossocial is predominant in the samples. The analysis also demonstrates the regular use of strategies to reach the reader and to stimulate them to change their habits.

This thesis focuses on the question of preferential treatment by U.S. national newsmagazines of presidential candidates in the 2004 election as evidenced by their visual coverage. Using content analysis, all the visual depictions of candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry were analyzed for 10 visual attributes to determine whether one had received better pictorial treatment. This study asked if the newsmagazines had printed greater amounts of visuals overall for one candidate and if one candidate's visuals were more or less positive than the other. The author concludes that more coverage was given to Bush over Kerry in a 60/40 ratio in all three magazines, and overall, the pictures published for each candidate were positive and neither candidate was given preferential treatment by any of the magazines. The newsmagazines were not deemed biased for publishing more visuals of Bush because, though more visuals were of the president during September, the newsmagazines published nearly equal numbers of visuals in October and November, often pairing them in layouts. The magazines were also not biased in their selection of visuals. All three tended to publish more positive or neutral visuals and rarely did any significantly differing patterns emerge to show that the editors favored one candidate over the other. Those attributes that did reach significance had weak associations. This study is a replication and a continuation of visual media content analyses of the 1984, 1988, and 1996 campaign coverage by Moriarty and Garramone (1986), Moriarty and Poppovich (1989), and Waldman and Devitt (1998) respectively. This research adds to the body of media bias and agenda-setting among newspapers and magazines and visual media.