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    2. Energy communication: theory and praxis towards a sustainable energy future

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Cozen, Brian (author), Endres, Danielle (author), Rai Peterson, Tarla (author), Horton, Cristi (author), and Barnett, Joshua Trey (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017-01-01
    Published:
    Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10694
    Journal Title:
    Environmental Communication
    Journal Title Details:
    12(3): 289-294
    Notes:
    7 pages., via online journal., This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, and consumption. We then offer three generative directions for future research related to energy transitions as communicative processes: analysing campaigns’ strategic efforts, critically theorizing energy’s transnational power dynamics, and theorizing the energy democracy movement.

    4. It is always dry here: examining perceptions about drought and climate change in the southern high plains

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Colston, Nicole M. (author), Vadjunec, Jacqueline M. (author), and Fagin, Todd (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10676
    Journal Title:
    Environmental Communication
    Notes:
    18 pages., via online journal., Drought is defined, experienced, and communicated about in multiple ways. This case study examines individual definitions of drought (timing, impacts, and severity) and attitudes about climate change. Household surveys (n = 120) were conducted in Cimarron County, Oklahoma and Union County, New Mexico using a stratified random sampling method to select farmers, ranchers, and town residents. Information about drought is primarily communicated between neighbors, friends, and family, as well as media and local governing agencies. Residents perceive the recent drought to be the worst drought on record, regardless of previous drought experiences. Residents reported widespread drought-related impacts on agriculture, environment, and society. Most residents see drought as cyclical and driven by natural causes, rather than human causes. We recommend adaptive drought communication engage more fully with identity, place, and history. Climate information should be presented in a relevant manner to diverse agricultural stakeholders with differing attitudes about climate change, management, and climate information.