"Internationalization": Moving Toward Connecting the Publics-Covering Environmental Activism in our Interconnected World.

What is the role of news today? Are journalists mere reporters or responsible agenda setters? This exploratory-comparative study uses contextual analysis to examine how differences in perspectives toward the environmental issues and activism may influence internationalization of news. Internationalization of news coverage is defined as the ability of the news format to connect similar projects around the world. ‘Internationalization’ would extend the salience of environmental issues faced at a local level to a global level and connect like-minded people, often with similar fates. The controversy surrounding hydroelectric projects, faced currently by many nations, was chosen as the environmental issue to be examined. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]