Happy to share that I’ll be participating in a panel/conversation at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), in a celebration of open-access journal Media+Environment, today from 5:00 to 6:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time (21:00-22:30 GMT). FLEFF, which is now in its 24th year, is one of the signature environmental film festivals around the world. […]
Posts Tagged ‘environmental communication’
Media+Environment at FLEFF tonight
Posted in Media ecology, tagged ecomedia, ecomedia studies, environmental communication, environmental journalism, journals, media studies, Media+Environment, open access on April 9, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Green new dealing it…
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, campaign finance reform, climate change communication, ecomedia, environmental communication, Fox Business News, Fox News, Green New Deal, Juan Williams, media, right-wing media, Robert Hockett, television, Tucker Carlson on February 9, 2019 | 21 Comments »
For someone who teaches media and environment, it’s heartening to see people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and one of her advisors, Cornell legal star Robert Hockett, break through the media din. Even Tucker Carlson had to admit that “it’s nice to have a smart person” on his show to explain things. (Students, take note.) First, Ocasio-Cortez:
Fort McMurray as fictive image
Posted in Climate change, Visual culture, tagged Anthropocene, climate denialism, climate science, environmental communication, fact, Latour, mediation, rhetoric, science studies on May 9, 2016 | 7 Comments »
With reality like this, who needs fiction? It’s from Fort McMurray, last week. Harrowing. While the impact of such images is undeniable, the debate over whether and how they are related to climate change is a debate the rest of us should not shy away from.
The semio-ethics of Coke’s polar bear mascots
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged animals, branding, brands, Coca-cola, environmental communication, mascots, polar bears, WWF on October 16, 2014 | 2 Comments »
A journalist asked me to say something about the use of animal mascots for commercial purposes. In an email, she wrote: “What does a brand owe an animal mascot, especially one at risk? For instance, polar bears face rapid habitat loss, yet Coke has only donated $2 million to the WWF for conservation efforts. There’s also Kellogg’s […]
Environmental media: call for curators
Posted in Media ecology, tagged ecomedia, environmental communication on March 7, 2013 | 1 Comment »
In Media Res is calling for guest curators on the theme of the representation of environmental issues in the media. The deadline (alas) is March 11. See the call here. H/t to Ecomedia Studies.
b(eautiful) p(ictures)
Posted in Visual culture, tagged environmental communication, Greenpeace, oilpocalypse on May 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
…sinking into ugly reality Many more like this came out of Greenpeace UK’s rebranding BP competition. See here and here for more.
neuropolitics & environmental communication
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged affect, cognition, Connolly, environmental communication, Lakoff, neuropolitics on January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My article “From Frames to Resonance Machines: The Neuropolitics of Environmental Communication” is coming out in the next issue of Environmental Communication. Here’s the abstract: George Lakoff’s work in cognitive linguistics has prompted a surge in social scientists’ interest in the cognitive and neuropsychological dimensions of political discourse. Bringing cognitive neuroscience into the study of […]
climate change supermodeling?
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged cognition, ecomedia, environmental communication on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz555JBIwY&hl=en&fs=1& Also published at Indications. Having just written a piece for Environmental Communication about the promises and pitfalls of cognitive science-based approaches to communicating about issues like climate change, I can’t help commenting on this video and blog post that arrived this morning on my blog reader from identity campaigning, re-posted from Cognitive Policy Works. […]
Ken Burns’ parks and nature’s nation
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged documentaries, ecomedia, ecopolitics, environmental communication, national parks, pantheism on October 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Before Ken Burns’ 6-part, 12-hour series on the national parks was aired, a perceptive article by the LA Times’ Scott Timberg warned that it might be greeted by “sharp knives.” Ten years in the making, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, finally came to our television screens last week, and so far no sharp knives […]