Nice guide for evaluation section of proposal

http://nonprofit.about.com/od/foundationfundinggrants/a/proposalevaluat.htm

Article from Physics Today

http://climatecommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Somerville-Hassol-Physics-Today-2011.pdf

Consulting company

http://climatecommunication.org

Liisa Antilla's blog about climate change communication

http://www.oneblueworld.blogspot.com/

Social research methods - useful!

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/

One more ethnomethodology article

This one is about how people read science texts. I love it when I can find stuff that could influence the thesis.

Identified event for Research Methods Microproject

In July 2012 Max Moritz of UC Berkeley and several colleagues published a study in Ecosphere about global climate change and wildfires.

The study was covered in the New York Times dot.earth blog and a couple of weeks later on CNN.

The Wall Street Journal ran a story in between those two that talks about drought conditions and fire risks but does not mention the Moritz & co. study.

Fox News did not cover the study, but shortly after the CNN coverage they did this climate science story. 

This should give me plenty to say. I'm pretty excited - especially because I had some experience covering research about fire and climate change by Tony Westerling at UC Merced when I worked there.

Ethnomethodography and mass media

The Mass Media and Terrorism

The Social Uses of Television

Reading Risk: public response to print media accounts of technological risk


We were also assigned the Wikipedia article on ethnomethodology.


I don't know why I keep wanting to call it "ethnomethodography." Geez, get it together.

Postmodernism, history and media studies

Articles for Friday's Research Methods homework focusing on how postmodernism in the field of history may influence or change communication and media studies. I think. Finding the right articles is definitely the hardest part.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/iscc/2009/00000001/00000001/art00003

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420.2011.652487

http://baywood.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,4,10;journal,10,167;linkingpublicationresults,1:300326,1

I think this is the guy

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_us/max_boykoff/

To me it looks like his work is an important place to find out where my field is right now and look for the next research questions.

If I could get Dr. G. to find a sabbatical in Boulder this guy could be an ideal Ph.D. advisor.

How media use affects readers - German study

This is just one to keep track of for the future.

http://gaz.sagepub.com/content/73/1-2/45.abstract

Articles that mention CNN

Moment of Hope, Mode of Realism: On the Dynamics of a Transnational Journalistic Field During UN Climate Change Summits.
http://ehis.ebscohost.com.mtproxy.lib.umt.edu:3048/ehost/detail?vid=4&sid=0cb51f66-aec1-4773-877a-b5f730454b93%40sessionmgr110&hid=109&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=74233946

“Global warming” or “climate change”?
http://ehis.ebscohost.com.mtproxy.lib.umt.edu:3048/ehost/detail?vid=4&sid=0cb51f66-aec1-4773-877a-b5f730454b93%40sessionmgr110&hid=109&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=59233878

MANUFACTURED SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSY: SCIENCE, RHETORIC, AND PUBLIC DEBATE.
http://ehis.ebscohost.com.mtproxy.lib.umt.edu:3048/ehost/detail?vid=4&sid=0cb51f66-aec1-4773-877a-b5f730454b93%40sessionmgr110&hid=109&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=66649361

More possibilities for the microproposal

Climate change and journalistic norms: A case-study of US mass-media coverage: http://www.sciencedirect.com.mtproxy.lib.umt.edu:3048/science/article/pii/S0016718507000188

Ideological cultures and media discourses on scientific knowledge: re-reading news on climate change: http://pus.sagepub.com/content/16/2/223.short

Environmental Risks and the Media (eBook): http://site.ebrary.com.mtproxy.lib.umt.edu:3048/lib/umontana/docDetail.action?docID=10054738

Why we disagree about climate change: http://wiki.umt.edu/odccss/images/b/ba/Why_we_disagree.pdf

Climate of scepticism: US newspaper coverage of the science of climate change: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937800500052X

Articles About NYT Climate Change Coverage for TC 5616 Microproposal 1

A Comparative Analysis of Climate Change in the Alternative and Mainstream Press of New Zealand and the United States.
http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=15&sid=bdeff3a9-7845-40b7-bfae-3a1015e431ca%40sessionmgr115&hid=115&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=36956799

Climate Communications: Conflicts and Opportunities.
http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=15&sid=bdeff3a9-7845-40b7-bfae-3a1015e431ca%40sessionmgr115&hid=22&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=48644132

In Denial on Climate Change.
http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=15&sid=bdeff3a9-7845-40b7-bfae-3a1015e431ca%40sessionmgr115&hid=22&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=25480388

NYT Cools on Global Warming Realities.
http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=15&sid=bdeff3a9-7845-40b7-bfae-3a1015e431ca%40sessionmgr115&hid=22&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=48108989

Articles About Objectivity for TC5616 Microproposal 1

MEDIA REACH, MEDIA INFLUENCE? THE EFFECTS OF LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNET NEWS ON PUBLIC OPINION INFERENCES. 
http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=13&sid=bdeff3a9-7845-40b7-bfae-3a1015e431ca%40sessionmgr115&hid=4&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=26650946

SCIENCE FOR EVERYBODY? HOW THE COVERAGE OF RESEARCH ISSUES IN GERMAN NEWSPAPERS HAS INCREASED DRAMATICALLY.
http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=807bd8b5-5eae-4e96-a81b-1df417e4b102%40sessionmgr104&vid=1&hid=124&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=37359781

The Neutrality Maze. (Opinions on objectivity; why "presenting both sides" may not be a valid means of presenting information objectively)
http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=13&sid=bdeff3a9-7845-40b7-bfae-3a1015e431ca%40sessionmgr115&hid=20&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=33321186

Rethinking Objectivity
http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=14&sid=bdeff3a9-7845-40b7-bfae-3a1015e431ca%40sessionmgr115&hid=20&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=10191039

Perceptions of media bias

I'm always interested in which news sources are trusted by people on different places on the political spectrum. This will be an important background area for future research as I examine where policymakers turn for their news about science and technology research. I'd like to find some more authoritative voices on this, but here's a start.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090131231343AAqyBqL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias_in_the_United_States

Drive-by

For now I am posting in a pretty drive-by style. That will change eventually, I think. For now, the blog is mainly a place for me to file away ideas and reference materials. It'll come in handy someday.

Chasing Ice documentary coming to Bozeman

The web page for the documentary Chasing Ice says it will be at the Bozeman Film Festival in March. That's gonna be a must-see.

http://www.chasingice.com/

NYT Global Climate Change Landing Page

I am thinking I will do some analysis of this page for a couple of different mini-projects I have coming up.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html

Survey Research Basics

Looks like a fairly comprehensive article in an area where I am going to be playing a lot of catch-up.

http://www.mitre.org/work/tech_papers/tech_papers_05/05_0638/05_0638.pdf

George Mason/Yale Study on Public Attention to Science vs. Political News

EBSCOhost: Attention to Science/Environment News Positively Predicts and Attention to ...

This study examines public attention to science and environment news as well as public attention to political news, analyzing how each affects risk perceptions and policy support regarding global climate change. The researchers surveyed 2,164 adults to reach their conclusions.

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