The European Media Portrayal of Climate Change: Implications for the Social Mobilization towards Climate Action
, Neide P. Areia 2,*, Sinead Mellett 3, Julia James 4, Diego S. Intrigliolo 5, Laurence B. Couldrick 6 and Jean-François Berthoumieu 4Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Very important topic and research. A lot of figures and dates, but lack of analysis. I suggest to improve introduction and "discussion" part. There is no conclusion.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The article concerns an interesting topic, but contains methodological deficiencies and inadequacies. I don't feel compelled to argue with the values in the tables but many questions arise about the way the authors obtained these data. Since my doubts are very fundamental, my review does not refer to particular lines of text but is more general and holistic.
1 The article is not sufficiently embedded in the literature. The current state of knowledge has not been sufficiently explained. We do not know whether someone has already undertaken similar research or whether it is pioneering.
2. the authors resign from formulating research hypotheses and do not argue it in any way. Yes, a hypothesis is not an idol and it is possible to write an empirical article of good quality without formulating a hypothesis - but this should be justified (e.g. by the specificity of the methods used).
3 The methodology is insufficiently described. We do not know whether the intention of the authors was to conduct a Critical Discourse Analysis or Content Analysis.
4. the use of Google search engine for research raises doubts. The authors did not describe how they protected themselves against the risk of the so-called information bubble and why one of the search engines that do not generate a similar risk (e.g. DuckDuckGo) was not used for the study. Anyway, the very use of a search engine is very problematic here. With such a large amount of data, the Big Data Analysis should rather be used. Thus, why did the authors not use Big Data Analysis?
The doubts described above result in questions about the reliability of the data obtained. I hope that the authors' explanations and the work put into correcting the text will allow us to achieve a satisfactory result.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
In my opinion the Authors improved the article. I would like to accept all changes.
Reviewer 2 Report
The authors have made an effort to revise the text and to clarify my doubts. Thanks to the modifications introduced, the text has been improved in quality and can be published.
