Transitioning to low-carbon energy systems depends on fundamental changes in
technologies, policies, and institutions. In Western democracies, public perceptions and …

As science communication has moved online, a range of important new genres have
emerged: crowdfunding proposals, blogs, microblogs, databases, and more. Rhetorics of …

This essay offers a narrative of rhetorical field methods and intertwined climate justice
exigencies. We argue the emergence of and resistance toward rhetorical field methods …

The community resilience needed for effective disaster response and recovery depends in
part on robust cross-sector, interorganizational networks, but differences among networked …

We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that
examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame …

Regulatory use of the precautionary principle (PP) tends to be broadly characterized either
as a responsible approach for safeguarding against health and environmental risks in the …

Individuals, both within and between different countries, vary substantially in the extent to
which they view climate change as a risk. What could explain such variation in climate …

Civil and commercial nuclear power production is a material and discursive phenomenon
posing theoretical and practical questions warranting further attention by communication …

This essay utilizes the perspective of articulation theory to examine how environmental
advocates, public interest organizations, and citizen-consumers have challenged the …

This article explores the intersection of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) and Actor-Network
Theory (ANT). These two traditions are particularly important in the Canadian research …