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Climate and Environmental Justice in Media Coverage of International Oil Companies’ Exit from Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region

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Climate and Environmental Justice in Media Coverage of International Oil Companies’ Exit from Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region

Oladapo, Oyewole Adekunle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2445-9468 (2025) Climate and Environmental Justice in Media Coverage of International Oil Companies’ Exit from Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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Abstract

After having operated in the oil-rich region for about seven decades, international oil companies (IOCs) are exiting Nigeria’s Niger Delta in droves, leaving behind a highly polluted region. Although civil society organisations (CSOs) and international media have described the exit as an act of climate and environmental injustice, the extent to which the Nigerian media centred climate and environmental justice in their coverage of the exit is unknown. As digital media are known to report climate change related issues better than traditional media, the study examined the centring or decentring of climate and environmental justice in selected Nigerian mainstream digital and digital-born media’s coverage of the exit of international oil companies from the Niger Delta between 2021 and 2024. Framed by the framing theory, the political economy of media, and the hierarchy of influences model, the study adopted a sequential mixed methods design comprising quantitative content analysis and key informant interviews. The findings show that the selected mainstream digital and digital-born media decentred both climate justice and environmental justice in the coverage, with climate justice receiving the lesser attention. In the absence of a clear-cut climate journalism at the selected digital media outlets, reporters and editors contended with crippling socio-institutional, organisational, routine, and personal factors to give some salience to the environmental justice issues raised by the divestments of international oil companies from the Niger Delta region.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Journalism
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Oladapo, Oyewole Adekunle
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M.A.
Program:Digital Innovation in Journalism Studies
Date:July 2025
Thesis Supervisor(s):Daoust-Boisvert, Amélie
Keywords:Climate justice; Environmental justice; Climate change; International oil companies; Divestment; Digital Media; Niger Delta; Nigeria
ID Code:995971
Deposited By: Oyewole Oladapo
Deposited On:04 Nov 2025 16:56
Last Modified:04 Nov 2025 16:56

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