Climate Communication Interest Group
Who We Are
The Annenberg School for Communication’s Climate Communication Interest (CCI) group is a cross-school, collaborative space with a focus on communicating about climate change and climate action. Whether you study or plan to study environmental/climate communication, are just curious to learn more, or just want to discuss and share ideas about climate change and related issues, we encourage you to join us! Communication is a highly interdisciplinary field, so we welcome all backgrounds to help enrich the group with a variety of disciplines. We are a burgeoning group of emerging scholars, and we welcome you to join us and share your own work and perspectives!
What Do We Talk About?
We have a variety of meeting formats surrounding the general topics of climate change communication and climate action. We brainstorm and discuss novel scholarship, review others’ published scholarship, and engage in discussion and activities to foster our own participation in climate action. Our meetings include, for example:
- Workshops, activities, and demos
- Research and scholarship presentations
- Discussions
- Exploring nature
Some presentations members have given in our group include:
- Emotional evocation in climate change communication
- Action planning for collective climate action
- Developing virtual reality (VR) interventions
- Indigenous perspectives in climate action
- The need for longitudinal research on climate attitudes and emotions
Our Goals
- Foster interdisciplinary collaboration: Climate change communication requires individuals from all fields and backgrounds. We encourage members from diverse academic and professional backgrounds to contribute their unique perspectives to our discussions and projects.
- Promote knowledge exchange and learning: Our group facilitates opportunities for deepening our understanding of climate change through discussions, workshops, guest speakers, and other activities.
- Cultivate a sense of collective responsibility: Climate change is an issue that goes beyond individual behavior. Through our activities, we emphasize the importance of collective action and systemic changes in addressing the challenges of climate change.
- Create a supportive and inclusive space: Ensure that all members feel welcomed and valued, regardless of their level of prior knowledge or preparation, and promote an environment where individuals feel comfortable sharing ideas and experiences related to climate change.
- Promote action and impact: Encourage members to translate their knowledge and ideas into tangible actions that address climate change, whether through individual behaviors, community engagement, or advocacy efforts.
Who Can Join?
- Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Practitioners
- Industry professionals
- Journalists
- Anyone with an interest in climate communication!
We include various modes of work in climate and environmental communication broadly to allow for whatever bandwidth anyone may have on a given week, and to reduce, as much as possible, any barriers to joining the group. We want anyone to feel comfortable joining without “having to prepare.”
If you’d like to sign up to be part of this group, please fill out this form.
Photo Credit (top image): Kyle Cassidy
