During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals, Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility. The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of maintaining fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experience, evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise.
How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism is and when it's done right? This text contends that, despite thoughtful explorations of the role of publics in journalism, the profession's methodologies and practices still don't adequately address matters of race, gender, intersectionality and settler colonialism. Drawing on their five years of research with journalists in the US and Canada, in a variety of news organizations from startups and freelancers to mainstream media, the authors investigate modern journalism's founding ideals and methods and their relationship to power to examine emerging multiple journalisms.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: -- Part I. How Do We Imagine a Better World -- 1 Rebel Yell: The Metapolitics of Equality and Diversity in Disney's Star Wars -- 2 The Hunger Games and the Dystopian Imagination -- 3 Spinning H. P. Lovecraft: A Villain or Hero of Our Times -- 4 Family Sitcoms' Political Front -- 5 "To Hell with Dreams": Resisting Controlling Narratives through Oscar Season -- Part II. How Do We Imagine the Process of Change -- 6 Imagining Intersectionality: -- 7 Code for What -- 8 Tracking Ida: Unlocking Black Resistance and Civic Imagination through Alternate Reality Gameplay -- 9 Everyone Wants Peace? -- Part III. How Do We Imagine Ourselves as Civic Agents -- 10 Learning to Imagine Better: -- 11 Black Girls Are from the Future: -- 12 "Dance to the Distortion": -- 13 Changing the Future by Performing the Past: -- 14 Mirroring the Misogynistic Wor(l)d: -- 15 Reimagining the Arab Spring: From Limitation to Creativity -- 16 DIY VR: -- Part IV. How Do We Forge Solidarity with Others with Different Experiences Than Our Own -- 17 Training Activists to Be Fans: -- 18 Tonight, in This Very Ring . . . Trump vs. the Media: -- 19 Ms. Marvel Punches Back: -- 20 For the Horde: -- 21 Communal Matters and Scientific Facts: -- 22 Imagining Resistance to Trump through the Networked Branding of the National Park Service -- Part V. How Do We Imagine Our Social Connections with a Larger Community -- 23 Moving to a Bollywood Beat, "Born in the USA" Goes My Indian Heart? -- 24 "Our" Hamilton: -- 25 Participatory Action in Humans of New York -- 26 A Vision for Black Lives in the Black Radical Tradition -- Part VI. How Do We Bring an Imaginative Dimension to Our Real-World Spaces and Places -- 27 "Without My City, Where Is My Past?" -- 28 Reimagining and Mediating a Progressive Christian South -- 29 Tzina: Symphony of Longing: -- 30 What's Civic about Aztlán? -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors
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