Climate Change Research Across Disciplines: The Value and Uses of Multidisciplinary Research Reviews for Technical Communication

Cagle, Lauren E.; Tillery, Denise

doi:10.1080/10572252.2015.1001296

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“…These Facebook pages act as echo chambers, and, as studies suggest, few members of these groups would likely be open to persuasion on climate change based purely on scientific information (Cagle & Tillery, 2015). But, this study points out a larger danger than the existence of an inclusive, extremist community by noting the circulation of misrepresentations and threats on these fora.…”

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The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook

Bloomfield

Tillery

2018

Environmental Communication

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This study uses a topical, rhetorical analysis of the 25 most popular posts on the Facebook pages for Watts Up With That and the Global Warming Policy Forum to examine how climate change denial circulates online. These groups adopt the appearance of credibility through reposting and hyperlinking, thus establishing a supportive, networked space among other skeptical sites, while distancing readers from original sources of scientific information. Page visitors used a variety of rhetorical strategies to echo the posts' main themes and to discredit alternative viewpoints. Differences between the topoi and rhetorical strategies on the two pages show that the climate change denial community is multifaceted and makes use of social media affordances to craft the appearance of legitimacy. This project contributes to our knowledge of how scientific information is co-opted, manipulated, and circulated in online spaces and how online features shape environmental discourse practices.

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The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook

Bloomfield

Tillery

2018

Environmental Communication

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“…In particular research carried out in environmental communication and rhetoric, a vibrant research field with a well established literature that we can only mention here, provides first promising results (e.g. special issue Environmental Communication 7 2013; Cagle and Tillery ; Pearce et al . ; Walsh ).…”

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Images, imagination and the global environment: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on global environmental images

Grevsmühl

2016

Geography and Environment

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Global environmental images have become part of our everyday life experience. We encounter them in news reports, scientific articles and artistic interventions. Yet so far, only the most iconic of these images have received close critical attention from scholars coming mostly from two related fields, science studies and cultural geography. Some of those studies, as for instance research carried out on the famous Apollo photographs, have revealed that the icons of our environmental age do not provide simple readings, that they carry multiple, often contradicting messages, and that they can be vectors of highly ambiguous and even conflicting political beliefs. However, historically informed interdisciplinary research on visual cultures from an environmental perspective is still at its beginning. This essay thus calls for a systematic exploration of the crucial role the visual plays in the creation, circulation, interpretation and adaptation of global environmental knowledge. It is argued that this inquiry cannot be left solely to historians or geographers but calls for a truly interdisciplinary engagement. One central claim is that we need to better understand the constitutive role the visual and associated knowledge practices, conventions and infrastructures play in mediating global environmental phenomena. One possibility, it is argued, is to develop a broader historical framework for understanding how the visual actively shaped scientific and environmental discourse, and how it stimulated the rise of holistic and dynamic understandings of the environment from the nineteenth century onwards. A second important research area that is suggested concerns the crucial role global environmental images play at the interface of science discourse and environmental policy and governance. The essay concludes by suggesting three basic theses which seem particularly promising for future interdisciplinary inquiries into global environmental images.

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“…Tackling a complicated, “wicked” problem such as climate change requires interdisciplinary approaches (Cagle & Tillery, 2015, p. 147). This inquiry meets these challenges by combining quantitative discourse analysis using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software (Pennebaker, Booth et al, 2015) and rhetorical analysis based on Kenneth Burke’s theories of identification and consubstantiality.…”

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The Effects of Establishing Intimacy and Consubstantiality on Group Discussions About Climate Change Solutions

Bloomfield

Swol

Chang

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Science Communication

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The many obstacles to productive climate change communication necessitate new approaches. Based on science communication strategies that promote engagement rather than knowledge transfer, we assigned participants ( N = 329) to randomized chat groups that discussed similarities between group members (intimacy condition) or information about climate change (information condition). This study combined Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) and rhetorical analysis and found that groups in the intimacy condition were more likely to exhibit commonality than groups in the information condition. This study offers practical strategies for having productive discussions on controversial scientific topics such as climate change.

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Climate Change Research Across Disciplines: The Value and Uses of Multidisciplinary Research Reviews for Technical Communication

Cited by 41 publications

References 56 publications

The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook

The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook

Images, imagination and the global environment: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on global environmental images

The Effects of Establishing Intimacy and Consubstantiality on Group Discussions About Climate Change Solutions

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