Blogging the Climate Change Crisis from Antarctica

Editors: Allan, S. and Thorsen, E.

Pages: 107-117

Publisher: Peter Lang

Place of Publication: New York

ISBN: 978-1-4331-0295-0

Abstract:

Rounding out this section, Thorsen (Chapter 8) explores how scientists researching the climate-change crisis in Antarctica are using blogging as a means to communicate directly with the public. He argues that citizen journalism can function as a form of educational outreach, giving us seemingly unmediated access to scientists who are recording the effects of climate change first-hand. This emergent form of science reporting is shown to provide an important contrast to traditional forms of journalism, where the process of climate change is a difficult fit for conventional, event-led news agendas.

http://citizenjournalism.me/

Source: Manual

Preferred by: Einar Thorsen