Mapping in an Echo Chamber: How Cartographic Silence Frames Conservative Media’s Climate Change Denial

Maps are a key way through which the science of climate change is communicated, but as partisan divides lead to new ideologically driven consumption patterns news sources, it important understand how media uses maps across political spectrum. In this study, we investigate have been incorporated into communication in conservative media. Our research has two major findings. First, compared mainstream media, far less likely use reporting on change. We call lack “cartographic silence,” borrowing and expanding Harley’s term. Second, when maps, never do they create their own accompany false arguments. Instead, these republished from other or peer-reviewed science, reframed by logical fallacies. conclude offering suggestions about scientists can improve hopes that will be susceptible disinformation efforts.