폐기물 이슈 관련 언론의 문제구성, 프레임, 그리고 의제설정

초록

As industrialization and urbanization accelerate, the amount of waste has also been increasing rapidly. The rapid increase in waste causes various social conflicts as well as environmental pollution, resulting in a wicked policy problem. The media plays a key role in turning waste issues into policy problems. Through the agenda-setting process, media emphasizes important agenda related to waste and strives to gain social attention and support. This study attempted to analyze the characteristics and changes of media agenda about waste. For this, it classified media reports by regime(Park Geun-hye, and Moon Jae-in regime) and ideological or political orientations(progressive, moderate, and conservative), and extracted core media agenda using topic modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA). All three media groups would set the agenda focusing on three topics including nuclear power, environmental protection, and waste management. Depending upon the regime and the media’s ideological orientation, however, problem construction, frames, and agenda-setting characteristics showed a substantial difference. The findings of this study provided important implications for waste management policies in Korea.

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