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Posts by Melissa Aronczyk

Doing Risky Research: Integrity, Impact and Safety in Digital Ethnography How can digital ethnographers deal with dynamics of mistrust and threats to information integrity in online and offline contexts?

Looking forward to sharing my work and experiences with digital ethnography this Friday at Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group (DEWG) along with Carolina Parreiras and moderated by @aronczyk.bsky.social. See you friday!

Friday 1PM EST.
registration ✍️ www.eventbrite.com/e/doing-risk...

4 months ago 3 1 0 0

Aflevering 4:
over de rol van de PR- industrie en de media in klimaatobstructie met

@aronczyk.bsky.social (Rutgers University) en
@maxboykoff.bsky.social (University of Colorado)

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6 months ago 1 1 1 0
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#MCCIConnect is off with a powerful seminar by @aronczyk.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social on A Strategic Nature
Hosted by @citystgeorges.bsky.social (Carolina Matos, Raluca Moise & @devinasarwatay.bsky.social)
Next: Graphic Refuge 19 Nov 5 pm
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
#CityStGSCC

6 months ago 2 1 0 0

Check out this important new open access book available today! I'm excited to be one of the contributors for Chapter 6 on Steering the Climate Discourse: Legacy News, Social Media, Advertising, and Public Relations led by @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social

6 months ago 11 4 0 0

Amy is an incredible journalist. She’s so good at getting academic research out to the public where it can have an impact.

6 months ago 2 1 0 0

An important conversation. Thanks @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @aronczyk.bsky.social larger book project led by @timmonsroberts.bsky.social (Brown University), Jennifer Jacquet (University of Miami), Carlos Milani (Rio de Janeiro State University) & Christian Downie (Australian National University)

6 months ago 24 7 0 0

Great conversation with Hanna Morris about her timely and important book.

6 months ago 3 2 0 0
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Such an honor to have had the opportunity to present my book today @ipk.bsky.social! Thanks to those who came out to my talk during this very busy #NYClimateWeek. And also thanks so much again to @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social and @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social

6 months ago 9 5 0 0
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Experts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social @aronczyk.bsky.social and @johnfocook.bsky.social speak with @trackchangesmedia.bsky.social on the rising threat of climate disinformation in the media, solutions misinformation, and the attack on climate science and scientists themselves.

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For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social.

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

6 months ago 3 3 0 1
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Illiberal Enterprise: The Undoing of the EPA, 1970–2025 illiberalism.org | Melissa Aronczyk on the politics of dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and the roots of American illiberalism.

Next up, check out Melissa Aronczyk on the politics of dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and the roots of American illiberalism.

@aronczyk.bsky.social

8 months ago 3 2 1 0
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Branding the nation in the era of climate crisis: Eco‐nationalism and the promotion of green national sovereignty This article examines the contemporary discourse of eco-nationalism and its promotion of national sovereignty and belonging. I consider some of the strategies, symbols and narratives by which nationa...

It appears my article in the journal Nations and Nationalism, "Branding the nation in the era of climate crisis: Eco-nationalism and the promotion of green
national sovereignty" is one of the journal's top-cited articles... :/ 😶
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

1 year ago 4 1 0 0
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Greenwashing, net-zero, and the oil sands in Canada: The case of Pathways Alliance Net-zero plans, or the target of negating an organization's carbon emissions by 2050, have proliferated among large oil and gas companies. These plans…

Out today: "Greenwashing, Net-zero, and the Oil sands in Canada: The case of Pathways Alliance" in the journal Energy Research & Social Science.
Chris Russill, Patrick McCurdy and I examine oil companies' empty promises to get to net-zero.

Open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Edelman has a list of “climate commitments” like engaging clients on net-zero. Lululemon says it’s focused on fostering a sustainable garment industry. But @aronczyk.bsky.social described the situation as a “pattern of behaviour that shows Edelman’s disregard for global environmental crises.”

2 years ago 2 2 0 0
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The Long History of PR-Led Climate Obstruction Edelman's Koch connection is just the latest example of a longstanding marriage between environmentally destructive companies and public relations.

www.adweek.com/agencies/ede...

Edelman’s Koch Connection Follows a Long History of PR-Led Climate Obstruction via @adweek.bsky.social

Glad to be interviewed for this piece by Kathryn Lundstrom

The PR industry is not at all neutral. It will support fossil fuel interests if it pays the bills...

2 years ago 4 2 0 0
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With thanks to editor @phaedra.bsky.social for putting together this special issue on Care and Environmental Communication

2 years ago 2 0 1 0
When Corporations Care: A Reassessment of the Debunking Paradigm in Environmental Communication When corporations, particularly those in the fossil fuel industry, profess to care about their audience, how should we analyze and evaluate this care? The common strategy by scholars and journalist...

I have a new essay out in the journal Environmental Communication on the limits of debunking when it comes to exposing fossil fuel PR...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access link:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/H8DBT...

2 years ago 1 0 1 0
COP28 + UAE
10 AGENCIES
COP28 PRESIDENCY
Agency Contracts
bcw
fgs global
APCO worldwide"
CIT GROUP
Edelman
OMNIA
Teneo
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FLEISHMANHILLAI
9 CONTRACTS WITH UAE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES, INCL. 2 FOR COP
أدنوك
ADNOC
MASDAR
20 CONTRACTS
WITH OTHER FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES FROM 2021-2023
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أرامكو السعودية saudi aramco
ExxonMobil
NESTE
أدنوك ADNOC
REPSOL
BHP
AFPM
uni për
ExxonMobil
سابك
Sabic
Sasol
أدنوك
أدنوك
ADNOC
ADNOC
MASDAR
centrica
Chev
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COP28 + UAE 10 AGENCIES COP28 PRESIDENCY Agency Contracts bcw fgs global APCO worldwide" CIT GROUP Edelman OMNIA Teneo viola FLEISHMANHILLAI 9 CONTRACTS WITH UAE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES, INCL. 2 FOR COP أدنوك ADNOC MASDAR 20 CONTRACTS WITH OTHER FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES FROM 2021-2023 ابنوك enoc أرامكو السعودية saudi aramco ExxonMobil NESTE أدنوك ADNOC REPSOL BHP AFPM uni për ExxonMobil سابك Sabic Sasol أدنوك أدنوك ADNOC ADNOC MASDAR centrica Chev CC

Clean Creatives reveal the suite of PR companies helping the COP Presidency who also service the fossil fuel industry. It's pretty wild how much overlap there is here.

"Most of these agencies maintain robust relationships with fossil fuel polluters"

cleancreatives.org/cop28

2 years ago 22 10 0 1
Behind the Scenes of a Digital Ethnography Dissertation Eventbrite - Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group presents Behind the Scenes of a Digital Ethnography Dissertation - Friday, December 1, 2023 - Find event and ticket information.

Please join the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group for our upcoming online event, Behind the Scenes of a Digital Ethnography Dissertation, with panelists
Michelle Cera, Zoe Glatt & Yena Lee:

www.eventbrite.com/e/behind-the...

2 years ago 1 0 0 0
Screenshot of the abstract for Energy Citizens “Just Like You”? Public Relations Campaigning by the Climate Change Counter-movement

Screenshot of the abstract for Energy Citizens “Just Like You”? Public Relations Campaigning by the Climate Change Counter-movement

New research from Caroline Sassan, Priyanka Mahat, @aronczyk.bsky.social and Robert Brulle: "Energy Citizens 'Just Like You'? Public Relations Campaigning by the Climate Change Counter-movement," investigates campaigns surrounding the Waxman-Markey bill. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2 years ago 9 5 0 0

The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar in Climate Communications and Environmental Justice.
This full-time two-year appointment may begin as early as December 1, 2023. For full posting & application information: lnkd.in/gZt8Yz4S

2 years ago 3 2 0 0

We're THRILLED to receive this award! Very grateful to the NCA Political Comm division for this recognition of our book. The book examines decades of PR influence on how we think about - or don't think about - environmental problems and climate change.

2 years ago 2 1 1 0

Climate disinfo and greenwashing researcher

2 years ago 5 0 1 0
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American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference With three months to go until the COP28 United Nations climate talks begin in Dubai, critics have stepped up their condemnation of the decision to put Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the head of Abu Dhabi’s ...

Edelman PR created a "green" image for Abu Dhabi and its leaders over 16 years. Now the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company is managing this year's COP28 climate conference. Coincidence? ... Um.
www.desmog.com/2023/09/13/e...

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I cannot be more proud of Maria Espinoza for the successful defense of her fantastic dissertation on responding to public health epidemics in the context of climate change. CONGRATULATIONS!

2 years ago 1 0 0 0
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I’m dazzled by your presence, does that count

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After nearly a decade of study, three years of intensive research, 1000+ citations, & 90K words, I now have a full MS of my book, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-fuel Propaganda and How to Fight it*.

I will now be taking a well-earned vacation.

2 years ago 32 4 5 0
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Europe's Biggest Oil Company Quietly Shelves a Radical Plan to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint A faltering offsets program points to new problems with the corporate world’s favorite “climate solution.”

Shell is shelving big plans for carbon offsets after realizing they don't really work www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

2 years ago 3 2 0 0
Assistant Professor in Media Studies The Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of Digital/Online ...

My department at Rutgers is hiring. Happy to answer questions about the role.
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/209...

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