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The 21st century faces unprecedented challenges in the environment and science fields. The Science and Environment Communication section therefore seeks to foster a strong and dynamic research network in the wide area of science and environment communication. We welcome work that crosses a range of disciplinary and methodological boundaries.

Examples of topic areas include — but are far from restricted to: media representations of science and the environment; political and commercial discourse on the environment; communication and scientific governance, democracy and citizenship; public engagement with science and the environment; the dialogic, interactive communication of research-based knowledge.

Science and Environment Communication Section - Call for Papers

ECREA’s 3rd EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE Conference Theme: ’Transcultural Communication — Intercultural Comparisons’. Hamburg, Germany, 12-15 October 2010 www.ecrea2010hamburg.eu ECREA’s Science and Environment Communication Section welcomes the submission of proposals for papers, posters and panels for ECREA’s 3rd European Communication Conference to take place in Hamburg, Germany from (...)
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PhD Course: Applying dialogue-based approaches in communication research: methods for tackling complex analysis and practice, 22-25 March 2010

Roskilde University, course location Kalundborg Youth Hostel (1 hour train ride west of Copenhagen) PhD students are invited to participate in a PhD course on applying dialogue-based approaches in communication research, organised by The Nordic Network for the Study of the Dialogic Communication of Research and The Danish National Research School in Media, Communication and Journalism. (...)
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Climate Change controversies in the media. Sociological insights

Events over the past year — most notably the Copenhagen conference, controversies over the IPCC, and more recently the Gulf oil spill — have significantly shaped news coverage on climate change, likely marking a new era or stage in the issue’s “narrative cycle”. However, the interpretation of these events and their symbolic power depend on social and historical conditions that give them meaning (...)
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