News frameworks for covering the United Nations Climate Summit “COP27” in talk-show programs and their impact on young people’s awareness of the dimensions of the issue of climate change

The study seeks to monitor, interpret and analyze the news frameworks used by the Egyptian talk-show programs in covering the United Nations Climate Summit hosted by Sharm El-Sheikh from 6 to 18 November 2022, through quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content of the news coverage in a sample of the episodes of these programmes. during the conference period. The study also aims to reveal the effect of using specific news frameworks in covering the conference on the perceptions, knowledge and attitudes of Egyptian youth regarding the issue of climate change in its various dimensions. In this context, the study relies on the experimental methodological design, by presenting a set of clips from the news coverage of the conference, which were published by the pages of the study sample programs on YouTube, to the participating experimental groups. The aim is to test the effect of a number of contrasting pairs of frames (thematic frame versus specific episodic frame, positive frames versus negative frames, and political responsibility versus human concerns) on the cognitive and directional aspects of climate change. The results of the analysis showed that the programs depended on specific news frameworks and frameworks with a positive orientation at the expense of general objective frameworks and frameworks with a negative orientation in their coverage of the climate summit, in addition to the emergence of the framework of political responsibility in a large proportion, followed by the framework of humanitarian concerns and economic results in addressing the programs of the issue of climate change. The results of the experimental study showed that there is a positive impact of the general thematic frameworks and the framework of human concerns on the respondents' perception of the dimensions of the issue of climate change, while no significant differences appeared in the impact of the frameworks on the respondents' attitudes towards the need to take action to confront climate changes.