Call for Papers for 2014 Public Communication of Science & Technology (PCST) Conference in Salvador, Brazil
The world’s top science and environmental communication researchers, program officers and thought leaders will be gathering next year for the 2014 meetings of the Public Communication of Science & Technology International Network. Details on the call for papers are below and more information can be found at the meeting’s official web site. Call for Proposals...
Slides for March 28 Lecture at Boston University: Journalists As Public Intellectuals in the Climate Debate
Thursday, March 28, 2013 Visions of a Sustainable Future: Journalists as Public Intellectuals in the Climate Change Debate In this month’s COM Research Colloquium, Dr. Nisbet (Associate Professor of Communication and Co-Director of the Center for Social Media, American University, Washington, D.C.) examines the role of prominent journalists as public intellectuals in society today. In...
Talk at Boston University on Dec. 6: Journalists as Public Intellectuals in the Climate Change Debate
For readers in the Boston area, I will be giving a talk at Boston University’s College of Communication on Thursday, December 6 The talk is a preview of the research I have been conducting while on sabbatical this semester as a visiting Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. A paper based on the...
American Ideas: Conversation with “Cure for Everything” Author Timothy Caulfield
In May, University of Alberta health law expert Timothy Caulfield visited American University to discuss his best-selling book “The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness.” Caulfield spent a year going on a “quest to find the truth about the things that make us healthy,” wading through a mass of misinformation,...
DC Lecture April 25: Decoding Messages About Health, Fitness, and Happiness
For Washington, DC readers, please join us and spread the word about the Wed. April 25 presentation at American University by Timothy Caulfield, among Canada’s leading experts in the area of public health, law, and bioethics. His lecture marks the U.S. release of his first popular book, “The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about...
NOAA Video Town Hall Series on the Climate Change Challenge
This week, NOAA’s Climate Service and Climate Watch magazine launched a video short course and lecture series featuring a diversity of world class experts explaining the major scientific, social, and ethical challenges related to climate change. I was honored to be able to contribute to the series with a lecture focused on new directions for climate change...
The Science of Science Communication: National Academies Event Examines Our Inconvenient Minds and Social Identities
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of research from the social and behavioral sciences offering insight on how individuals, social groups and political systems come to understand and make decisions related to science, the environment, technology, and medicine. Research in this area stretches across disciplinary boundaries, university departments, funding agencies and field-specific...
Fall Seminar Series Examines the Climate Change Debate, Celebrity Scientists, the Iraq War, and Public Diplomacy
Please join us this Fall semester for a new research seminar series featuring presentations by American University faculty and visiting scholars examining the intersections among media, technology and democracy. The series is organized and sponsored by the Climate Shift Project, the School of Communication and the Doctoral program in Communication. The seminars are open to...
