Book Launch: How Climate Change Comes to Matter by TerreWEB-Member Candis Callison « TerreWEB
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Climate change offers an opportunity to investigate how science-based issues and predictions come to matter for the wider public. What role media and social movements might play in this process has largely rested on long held assumptions that privilege access to information and science literacy. While fidelity to scientific facts remains essential, the work of diverse social groups from indigenous leaders in the Arctic to corporate social responsibility activists in Boston demonstrate that climate change is experienced, understood, translated, modern awards and discussed differently in varied contexts. How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke U Press, 2014) draws on ethnographic evidence in order to suggest that social affiliations and concerns are vital to investing climate change with particular meanings, ethics, and morality in order to mobilize action modern awards and public engagement.
Candis Callison is a TerreWEB-member and an Assistant Professor in UBC s Graduate School of Journalism where she conducts research on media, social movements, and science and environment issues. Candis holds a PhD (Program modern awards in Science, Technology, and Society) and MSc (Comparative Media Studies) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to graduate school, she worked in the U.S. and Canada in broadcast and online modern awards media as a journalist and producer. Her first book, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal modern awards Life of Facts has recently been released from Duke University Press.
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[X] close The University of British Columbia a place of mind The University modern awards of British Columbia TerreWEB Home About Members TerreWEB Members Advisory Committee Collaborators Students Prospective Students TerreWEB Scholars modern awards TerreWEB Alumni Internships TerreWEB Seminar Course FAQ News and Events TerreWEB 1st Annual Open House Seminars Workshops Application Forms Job Opportunities Past Work Study Students Media TerreWEB Videos Seminar Videos Contact Us External Links
Climate change offers an opportunity to investigate how science-based issues and predictions come to matter for the wider public. What role media and social movements might play in this process has largely rested on long held assumptions that privilege access to information and science literacy. While fidelity to scientific facts remains essential, the work of diverse social groups from indigenous leaders in the Arctic to corporate social responsibility activists in Boston demonstrate that climate change is experienced, understood, translated, modern awards and discussed differently in varied contexts. How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke U Press, 2014) draws on ethnographic evidence in order to suggest that social affiliations and concerns are vital to investing climate change with particular meanings, ethics, and morality in order to mobilize action modern awards and public engagement.
Candis Callison is a TerreWEB-member and an Assistant Professor in UBC s Graduate School of Journalism where she conducts research on media, social movements, and science and environment issues. Candis holds a PhD (Program modern awards in Science, Technology, and Society) and MSc (Comparative Media Studies) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to graduate school, she worked in the U.S. and Canada in broadcast and online modern awards media as a journalist and producer. Her first book, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal modern awards Life of Facts has recently been released from Duke University Press.
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