It is widely recognized that fracking is a topic of debate in the news, which is largely “compartmentalized” into stories on fracking as economically beneficial or risky to environment and health. Building on previous scholarship, we take a constructivist position and focus on fracking as potentially technical and social, or sociotechnical. Our qualitative textual analysis of news printed in two high-circulation newspapers in Canada (2013-2015) reveals that normative positions on fracking are furthered alongside normative descriptions of Indigenous Peoples and regional cultures. We argue that science communication practitioners perform specific normative work via their communicative acts.

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加拿大印刷新闻中的压裂：社会技术辩论

众所周知，水力压裂是新闻中的一个争论话题，它在很大程度上“划分”为关于水力压裂对环境和健康有利或有风险的故事。在以前的学术研究的基础上，我们采取建构主义的立场，并将水力压裂视为潜在的技术和社会或社会技术。我们对加拿大两家高发行量报纸（2013-2015 年）上印刷的新闻的定性文本分析表明，水力压裂的规范立场与对土著人民和区域文化的规范描述一起得到了进一步发展。我们认为科学传播从业者通过他们的传播行为来执行特定的规范工作。