To successfully conduct the proposed research, the cadidate will need to possess: a) the ability to understand global warming, climate change ad climate risk processes; b) the ability to qualitatively examine the Italian news media, searching for recurring patterns of representation of climate change in a given time period; c) the candidate will also have to be skilled in learning how to use the text mining softwares needed to quantitatively assess the patterns indviduated in the previous step; d) last but not least, the candidate will have to come up with innovative strategies that the media might employ to communicate climate change in an unbiased and scientifically sound fashion.

The Reference person will be showing the PhD candidate how to analyze quantitatively the media representation of climate change. This task will mainly be performed by using TalTac and other similar, cutting-edge text mining softwares, capable of processing a huge amount of texts in time-efficient manner.