[NORSLIS] New PhD thesis: Research communication in the climate crisis

[Jutta Haider]

Dear all,
This is to announce the publication of a new thesis in Information Studies (biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap).

Research communication in the climate crisis: Open letters and the mobilization of information
by Carin Graminius, 2023, Lund University, Sweden.

What happens to researchers when the topic they study poses an existential threat to the world as we know it? When communication on the topic is politically polarized, but at the same time institutionally encouraged and existentially needed? By what means do researchers come to navigate this complex communication environment? The climate crisis and changing social, political, and academic conditions bring such questions to the forefront in researchers’ public communication on climate issues.

This thesis engages with open letters as a form of research communication to explore the practices climate scholars engage in to convey information and inspire urgent action in climate matters. Contrary to views of open letters as political opinion pieces used for popular mobilization, this dissertation explores their multifaceted roles through a variety of information and communication practices. The thesis illustrates how open letters provide a space to contemplate one’s role as an academic in the climate crisis, emphasizing the transformative and constitutive potential of communication as practice. Moreover, researchers’ practices and engagement in open letters on climate change also contribute to reconceptualizing the notion of mobilization, thus expanding the breadth and understanding of how information is put into action.

Download here: https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/research-communication-in-the-climate-crisis-open-letters-and-the

List of Articles

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Article I: Graminius, C. (2020). Conflating scholarly and science communication practices: the production of open letters on climate change. Journal of Documentation, 76(6), pp. 1359-1375.https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2020-0015
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Article II: Graminius, C. (2021). Fast-food information, information quality and information gap: a temporal exploration of the notion of information in science communication on climate change. Journal of Documentation, 78(7), pp. 89-105. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2021-0072
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Article III: Graminius, C. (2022). Research Communication on Climate Change through Open Letters: Uniting Cognition, Affect and Action by Affective Alignments. Science as Culture, 31(3), pp. 334-356.https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2022.2049597
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Article IV: Graminius, C. (2023). Open letters and climate communication: The professional roles and identities of researchers in times of crisis. Environmental Communication, 17(6), pp. 537-549.https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2225765
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Article V: Graminius, C. (submitted). Publishing strategies and professional demarcations: enacting media logic in academic climate communication through open letters. Communications.


Best wishes,
Jutta





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Jutta Haider | Professor | Swedish School of Library & Information Science

Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education & IT | University of Borås

Affiliate Professor and reader (docent)

Dep. of Arts & Cultural Sciences | Lund University, Sweden

https://www.hb.se/en/research/research-portal/researchers/JUHA

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 Recent publications:

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 Paradoxes of media and information literacy: The  crisis of information (book)<https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53690>
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 Google Search and the creation of Ignorance: The case of the climate crisis<https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231158997>
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 Algorithmically embodied emissions: the environmental harm of everyday life information in digital culture<https://informationr.net/ir/27-SpIssue/CoLIS2022/colis2224.html>
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 Information literacy challenges in digital culture: conflicting engagements of trust and doubt<https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1851389>
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