Looduskaitsediskursus päevalehtedes Saaremaa süvasadama ja Natura-alade loomise kaasuste näitel
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2005
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Current work observes how the nature protecting problems are covered in the Estonian
daily newspapers Eesti Päevaleht and Postimees. Two cases throughout three years -
2002, 2003, 2004 - are surveyed: planning of the ferry-port to Saaremaa island and the
forming of the EU nature protecting network Natura 2000. Among the analysed texts are
news-stories, columns, editorials, debates and interviews.
The main hypothesis was that the newspapers depict the nature protecting interests as
being in conflict with people welfare. Work examines participants and argumentation,
and also how the nature is depicted and the relationship between humans and the nature
described in the texts.
The critical discourse analysis and the content analysis methods are used in the research
and also the qualitative interview with some of the authors. The purpose of the interviews
was to find out how much the discourse is influenced from the attitudes of the authors,
how much from the editorial routines and how much from the news value.
The research concludes that the nature protecting discourse is constructed mainly through
the opposing of the nature protecting interests against the interests of common people. At
the same time authors depict the conflict stemming mainly from the insufficient
information and the officials or the state as being guilty of that. The research also finds
out that the nature protecting discourse is influenced from officials, from environment
protecting activists and from the attitudes of the journalists.
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H Social Sciences (General), bakalaureusetööd