-
Testimonios and Querencia Craft a Counternarrative to the Manhattan Project Nuclear Story Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Cynthia P. Marentes
Published in Environmental Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
Communicating the “Social Meaning[s] of Shale” Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jordan B. Kinder
Published in Environmental Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
“We Need to Build Carbon-Neutral Houses” – Discourses of Responsible Expertise in Finnish Professional Media Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Liisa Kääntä, Merja Koskela, Henna Syrjälä, Eveliina Salmela
In this study, we explore how expertise and responsibility are discursively intertwined in professional media. Based on quotations from building and real-estate industry professionals in news texts...
-
The Renewable Energy Transition and “the People” – Exploring the Intersections of Right-wing Populism and the Renewable Energy Transition in Portuguese Media Discourses Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Andreia Valquaresma, Susana Batel, Ana Isabel Afonso, Rita Guerra, Luís Silva
Local contestation to the deployment of large-scale renewable energy infrastructures has been increasing. Right-wing populism has also been on the rise across the world. This article aims to explor...
-
Divergent Views and Common Values: Comparing Sustainability Understandings Across News Media, Businesses, and Consumers Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Irina Lock, Anke Wonneberger, Penny Steenbeek
Sustainability has become a widely used term in public discourse, yet it is connected to a variety of meanings with diverging implications for possible societal, political, and economic solutions. ...
-
Did Increased Media Coverage of Climate Change and the COVID19 Pandemic Affect Climate Change Concern and Issue Salience in the UK in 2021? Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Pete Lampard, Hilary Graham, Stuart Jarvis
Evidence from high-income countries suggests that greater media coverage of climate change is associated with greater public concern, while societal “shocks” reduce concern. Conducted in 2021, this...
-
(Un)believably Green: The Role of Information Credibility in Green Food Product Communications Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Milica Mladenovic, Hans van Trijp, Betina Piqueras-Fiszman
This research explored how variations in green information influence consumer responses to green food packaging. Study 1 (N = 355) addressed how consumers evaluate packaging sustainability given th...
-
Articulating a Loss and Damage Fund: How the Global South is Rethinking Agency and Justice in an Age of Climate Disasters Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, Phaedra C. Pezzullo
The Global South (or Low-Income Countries, LICs) long has been advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund to address vulnerability and limited adaptation capacity in response ...
-
Combatting Climate Disinformation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Clara Christner, Pascal Merz, Berend Barkela, Hermann Jungkunst, Christian von Sikorski
In this study, we investigated whether corrections can combat climate disinformation. Using a preregistered quota-based online experiment in Germany (N = 1401), we tested how the effectiveness of d...
-
Three Key Dimensions of Climate Change from Opinion News in a Malaysian Newspaper Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Tasha Erina Taufek, Azhar Jaludin
Previous studies have pointed to a notable increase in public interest on climate change using the survey method. These studies documented public opinion on climate change using survey method to de...
-
Dear Tampa Bay: Creating and Leveraging a Climate Resilience Documentary Film Using Story-Telling for Citizen Engagement Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Rebecca Johns, Sierra Raines, Amanda Moore, Melissa Hill, Paige Lansky, Arsum Pathak
Increasing the climate literacy of local leaders in the Tampa Bay region is critical if the area is to successfully face the rising challenges of the climate crisis. One of the most vulnerable area...
-
Can Information Change People’s Mind? An Autoethnographic Reflection on my Personal Journey to Veganism Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Silje Kristiansen
This autoethnographic essay portrays how a profound change of thinking and lifestyle can be triggered by mass media coverage and how a lifestyle can be sustainably changed although it goes against ...
-
The “Greta Effect” on Social Media: A Systematic Review of Research on Thunberg’s Impact on Digital Climate Change Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Niels G. Mede, Ralph Schroeder
Greta Thunberg is a major figure in climate change discourse, featuring prominently in the news and social media. Many studies analyzed the “Greta effect,” but there has not been a review that inte...
-
Social Constructions of Climate Futures: Reframing Science’s Harmful Impact Frame Across News Media, Social Movements, and Local Communities Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Lars Guenther, Youssef Ibrahim, Jana Lüdemann, Coral Iris O’Brian, Christopher N. Pavenstädt, Inga Janina Sievert, Michael Brüggemann, Simone Rödder, Michael Schnegg
Climate research has established a cultural authority in modelling our future with climate change, and often uses a harmful impacts frame to communicate about climate change and climate futures. Th...
-
The Albatross and the Ethnographer Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 D. Soyini Madison
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 18, No. 1-2, 2024)
-
Whose Authority Drives the Narrative?: Framing the Spread of Mountain Pine Beetle in Canadian News Media Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Jenna Hutchen, Valerie Berseth, Vivian Nguyen
Climate change is facilitating the expansion of biorisks (invasive species, viruses, diseases) into new environments. While news media are a key site where expert authorities communicate about risk...
-
Pro-Environmental Nationalism is Still Nationalism: How Political Identity and Prior Attitudes Affect Nationalist Framing Effects on Support for Climate Action Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Natalia Bogado
Based on research on framing effects and biased cognition, this paper investigated the limitations of framing pro-environmental messages in nationalist terms that emphasize the importance of uphold...
-
Blame and Responsibility Assignments in Fast Fashion-Triggered Environmental Injustice: A Case Study of Eco-Documentaries Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Yi Lin
This study deconstructs the representations of fast fashion-triggered environmental injustice in three widely viewed eco-documentaries produced by public service media in regard to causal responsib...
-
Digital/Social Media as Environment: The Limits to Activism in a Global Surveillance Society Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Kevin Michael DeLuca
Published in Environmental Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
A Reflection on Imperialism in Nature Conservation from African Conceptions of Care Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Aby L. Sène
Eurocentric wilderness ideals, that is the commons enclosure, a nature de-peopled and privatized, permeate how we collectively think and communicate about environmental issues in Africa. This imper...
-
Unsafe Homecoming: Unraveling Environmental Injustice and Land Dispossession in the Syrian Refugee Crisis Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Noor Ghazal Aswad
This paper attends to the Syrian refugee crisis to argue that land dispossession is not only a political and humanitarian phenomenon, but one that cuts to the core of how we inhabit, experience, an...
-
On Environmental Communication as a Care Discipline Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Phaedra C. Pezzullo
This is a Special Issue opening essay. The theme of the Special Issue is Care, edited by the author in the inaugural issue of her three-year editorship of the journal. The author furthers her argum...
-
The “Think-and-do Tank” Model: Action-oriented Climate Communication Research Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Edward Maibach, Connie Roser-Renouf, Teresa Myers, John Kotcher, Daniel Reed
Since its founding in 2007, the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication has pursued an approach to climate science communication that we call a “think-and-do tank” model. Th...
-
Practicing Care Through Creative and Collaborative Climate Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Julie Doyle
This paper offers a critical reflection upon the reimagining of environmental and climate communication as a discipline of care, through the practices of creative and collaborative climate communic...
-
Deep Sustainability as Care: A Nondual Approach to Environmental Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Ulrika Olausson
This essay suggests the concept of “deep sustainability” as a philosophical orientation for environmental communication scholars to address not only the empirical but also the ethical and ontologic...
-
Communicating Climate Change on TikTok During the Climate Summits: From the Environmental Issues to the Politicization of Discourse* Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Alejandra G. Nieto-Sandoval, Carme Ferré-Pavia
Climate Change (CC) communication is one of the most important areas to inform and raise awareness of the current climate emergency. This research studies how CC was communicated on the fastest gro...
-
Civil Disobedience by Environmental Scientists: An Experimental Study of its Influence on the Impact and Credibility of Climate Change Research Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ronald S. Friedman
We experimentally tested whether information from environmental scientists regarding the consequences of global warming would be taken more seriously if they had engaged in civil disobedience, as o...
-
Displacements of Care in Climate Crisis: The Case of Tipping Points Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Chris Russill
In this paper, the relationship of care and crisis is discussed with respect to tipping points and strategic mobilizations of the concept by climate communicators including scientists, policymakers...
-
Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under Political and Police Repression Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Constance Gordon
This essay discusses the intensification of threats to practices of radical care, such as collective action, mutual aid, and expressions of solidarity with others resisting ecological violence. I t...
-
From the Gezi Park Protests to the Akbelen Forest: Care in the Context of Democracy and Political Dissent Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Miyase Christensen, Christian Christensen
In this essay, a brief history of environmental protests in Turkey will be followed by a discussion connected to two central frameworks: the logic of extractivism and care. Specifically, we argue t...
-
Combatting Climate Change Misinformation: Current Strategies and Future Directions Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Liang Chen
Climate change represents a persistent global phenomenon, presenting a significant threat to our entire ecosystem, including human lives. Regrettably, the widespread dissemination of online misinfo...
-
On Separating Data from People: Reflections on Indigenous Digital Exhaust, Transparency, and Constitutive Relationality Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Shiv Ganesh
This essay invites readers to think through the carelessness and care-lessness of data extraction regimes under surveillance capitalism with regard to notions of care produced with and against thes...
-
Cultivating Care through Culture and Education Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Tema Milstein
In this essay, I discuss the importance of cultivating educational spaces wherein collective care is celebrated and emboldened. To do so, I outline ways environmental communication as a field is pa...
-
Seeking Consensus on Confusing and Contentious Issues: Young Norwegians’ Experiences of Environmental Debates Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Ida Vikøren Andersen
In this paper, I examine how young people in Norway, an affluent nation in the global north with long traditions of acknowledging the young as citizens, articulate and negotiate agency and norms fo...
-
“It is the Voice of the Environment that Speaks”, Digital Activism as an Emergent Form of Environmental Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Gemma San Cornelio, Sandra Martorell, Elisenda Ardèvol
This paper examines environmental communication among activists on social media, specifically on Instagram. Drawing from an ethnographic study, it highlights a new type of activism that focuses on ...
-
Queer and Trans Ecologies as Care Practice of Indispensability Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 E Cram
This essay calls for an agenda of queer and trans environmentalisms within environmental communication. I detail how queer and trans ecologies operate as frameworks for ecological care, drawing fro...
-
Rethinking Environmental Sciences and Social Media from the Global South: Rural and Indigenous Communication and Audiovisual Communication in Social Media Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Leonor Solís-Rojas
This article offers a reflection on environmental communication as a discipline of care as an opportunity to imagine and reconstruct, both theoretically and practically, the role of environmental c...
-
Tides, Touch, and Care in Collaborative Fieldwork Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Bridie McGreavy
This essay describes the influence of tides and touch on collaborative fieldwork as a practice of care. I draw from collaborations with clamming communities and connect a history of fieldwork with ...
-
Is it Up to Me or Them? Insights from an Experimental Study on Psychological Reactance Towards Climate Change Mitigation Appeals Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Laura Bilfinger, Benjamin Brummernhenrich, Regina Jucks
This study posits the hypothesis that the lack of an individual’s engagement in mitigating climate change might be due to reactance, a motivational psychological state that occurs when one’s percei...
-
Performing on the Nile: Young Women Embodying Ecofeminist Decolonial Care Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Sarah Fahmy
This article furthers the ecofeminist perspective that the treatment of nature and women is inextricably linked, to envision alternative methods for care. It demonstrates how applied performance an...
-
Exploring Virtual Reality as a Potential Care Technology Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Urooj S. Raja
Virtual reality or VR is a technology that uses computers to generate simulated words. It has been attracting attention lately as, for some, it represents a new frontier in communication, while oth...
-
When Corporations Care: A Reassessment of the Debunking Paradigm in Environmental Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Melissa Aronczyk
When corporations, particularly those in the fossil fuel industry, profess to care about their audience, how should we analyze and evaluate this care? The common strategy by scholars and journalist...
-
Reporting with Care: Reflections on Environmental Journalism, Ethics, and Latin American Challenges Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Bruno Takahashi
In this article, I delve into the intersection of care and environmental journalism within the context of Latin American challenges. Drawing on personal experiences as an academic, I emphasize the ...
-
Caring for Water, Plastics, and Trees: Community Radio and Digital Media in Kenya’s Environmental Movements Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Daniel Oloo Ong’ong’a
This essay delves into the critical intersection of environmental conservation and communication, particularly in the context of Kenya. Environmental stewardship is a moral and existential obligati...
-
Cultures of Care: A Critical Food Systems Agenda for Environmental Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Alana Mann
Food-related communication research provides a lens for interrogating environmental discourses that neglect questions of different, power, privilege. In this essay Alana Mann presents a critical fo...
-
Familial and Communal Histories as Environmental Care Work Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 LeiLani Nishime, Kim Hester Williams
The sharing of our family histories is a way to re-envision care work from a “racial ecologies” and critical environmental lens. We consider family histories as an enactment of the care work that i...
-
“The Ocean is Our Legacy:” Values of Care and Reciprocity Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Tiara R. Na'puti
This essay examines contemporary nuclear and military impacts on the Pacific Ocean and environmental destruction perpetuated by Japan and the United States. It weaves together complex and overlappi...
-
Ecomedia Literacy’s El Buen Vivir/Sumak Kawsay: The Practice of Care in Media Education in Latin America Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Sarawi Andrango, Darío Iza Pilaquinga, Antonio López, Jeff Share
The Andean concept of “sumak kawsay” (translated as el buen vivir in Spanish and the good life/good living in English) entails a form of relationality between humans and the other-than-human realms...
-
Healing the Open Wound of Ecofascism: Notes on Care in/from the Borderlands Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Carlos A. Tarin
This essay explores environmental care from a Borderlands perspective. Using the August 3, 2019 shooting in El Paso, TX as a focal point, I argue that recent eco-fascist violence is deeply connecte...
-
Translating Spanish-Language Radio Programming as a Transborder Environmental Communication Praxis of Care Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Catalina M. de Onís
This essay argues for cultivating multilingual, transborder environmental communication praxis that conceptualizes and enacts care across lines of difference and amid shared struggles. This approac...
-
“Fish Forever” Campaigns: Enacting Communities of Care and Semangat Through Indonesian Fisheries Cooperatives Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Stacey K. Sowards, Dewi R. Azizah
To illustrate communities of care in conservation, this essay provides three brief examples of campaigns in rural fishing communities in Indonesia. Based on long term fieldwork, we illustrate how t...
-
Reflecting on Care within an African Relational Framework for Environmental Communication Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
In the face of threatening ecological crises, the imperative of reorienting the field of environmental communication toward a crisis and care orientation has gained prominence. Although notable pro...
-
Care and Carelessness in the Niger Delta: Nature’s Gift, Humanity’s Ineptness Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Godwin B. Okon
This piece looks at the environmental endowments of the Niger Delta region against the backdrop of environmental devastation, in the area, as occasioned by human activities. While the former has be...
-
Care and the Funny Business of Unsettling Land Acknowledgements Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Salma Monani, David Walsh, Janelle Wertzberger
This article points to the “funny business” that invariably accompanies the practice of land acknowledgments. By highlighting the idea of “funny business,” we illuminate its double entrendre – its ...
-
Do We Care to Listen?: Commitments of Care in Environmental Communication from the Fields of India Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Jagadish Thaker
Reimaging environmental communication as not only a “crisis discipline” but also as a “care discipline” opens up new possibilities for research and praxis. It challenges environmental communication...
-
Communities of Care for Air Pollution Policies in Pakistan: An Integrated Approach to Public Engagement and Policy Implementation Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Muhammad Ittefaq, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh
This commentary explores the critical issue of air pollution policies and public engagement in Pakistan, a nation consistently ranked among the world’s most polluted. Prolonged exposure to diverse ...
-
Communicating Transformation in Food and Agricultural Ecologies Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Norie R. Singer, Silje Kristiansen
Published in Environmental Communication (Vol. 17, No. 8, 2023)
-
Communicating Trends in Sustainability Transitions: Minority Beliefs and Dynamic Norms about Plant-Based Food Consumption Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Irene Malta, John Hoeks, João Graça
An emerging line of research has been exploring how changes in social norms can lay the ground for shifts toward sustainability. This pre-registered study investigated the influence of communicatin...
-
Provoking Gut-Level Reactions: A Study on Journalistic Framing During the 2020 Meatpacking Crisis Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Michelle Rossi, Patrick Ferrucci
This study investigates news frames used by mainstream news media in the United States to portray the 2020 meatpacking crisis. By integrating framing and animal standpoint theory, it reveals the me...
-
Media Representations and Farmer Perceptions: A Case Study of Reporting on Ocean Acidification and the Shellfish Farming Sector in British Columbia, Canada Environmental Communication (IF 3.389) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Natalie Drope, Evie Morin, Karen Kohfeld, Debby Ianson, Jennifer J. Silver
Ocean Acidification (OA) creates corrosive conditions that impact organisms that produce calcium carbonate shells, such as clams and oysters. The Salish Sea, a body of water where much of British C...