Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives » Antarctica http://citizenjournalism.me Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:31:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Chapter 8: Blogging the Climate Change Crisis from Antarctica http://citizenjournalism.me/the-book/section-one-eyewitness-crisis-reporting/chapter-8-blogging-the-climate-change-crisis-from-antarctica/ http://citizenjournalism.me/the-book/section-one-eyewitness-crisis-reporting/chapter-8-blogging-the-climate-change-crisis-from-antarctica/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:58:04 +0000 Einar Thorsen http://citizenjournalism.me/?page_id=32 Continue reading →]]> 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.

Author: Einar Thorsen

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