Blog Information

This blog is published weekly by the Environmental Communication Division's Publications Director and the Publications Committee. Read the posts chronologically here and meet the contributors to the blog here. Sign up to receive monthly blog post round-ups by emailing us at ECDPublicationsDirector@gmail.com

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ECD Blog Series

The ECD blog publishes series that address the same topic or are connected by format. Read more about the active and recent series below and propose a series to the ECD Publications Director at ECDPublicationsDirector@gmail.com.

Book Review Tag

Conceived as a means of amplifying the voices of environmental communication scholars, the tag review series features brief engagements with books by scholars and activists involved in environmental communication as a practice or subject of inquiry. After writing their review, authors “tag” a colleague who then writes the next review. Sign up to join the book review tag list here. The series was proposed and initiated by Joshua Trey Barnett.

(Wild)Fires and Communication - Spring/Summer 2022 blog post series

This series of posts explores wildfires as both a creative and destructive force in our natural landscapes. This blog series considers wildfires, which have impacts from the policy-level to the individual-level. Environmental communication scholars have the opportunity to consider how fires are not just physical but also communicative. In addition to wildfires, contributors have expanded the scope of the series to explore fires in a variety of different contexts. The series was conceptualized and launched by Rebecca M. Rice, Jared Macary, and Elizabeth Williams.

Launching the "Fire" Series: The Communicative Dimensions of Wildfires by Jared Macary, Rebecca M. Rice, and Elizabeth Williams
Public Response to Megafire by Rebecca M. Rice and Emma Frances Bloomfield
The heat of the moment: Twitter, confirmation bias, and making sense of wildfires by Jared Macary
Prescribed Burn: A Poem by Madison Jones
Shifting Risk Perceptions by Elizabeth Williams
The Pyropolitics of Wildfires by Tyler Rife
The Causes and Consequences of Poor Air Quality by Marilee Long
"The Good Fire Podcast" review: Indigenous Fire Ecology by Alyssa Kahn
How we talk about fire matters: Some observations from a rhetorician in the field (in the forest, on the mountain, in the helicopter . . .) by Rebekah Fox
Seeing with Wildfire: Where the Water Was by Anushka Peres
Fire Series Reflection by Rebecca M. Rice, Elizabeth Williams, and Jared Macary

Public Lands and Power - Fall 2021 blog post series

This series of posts explores the ways land is communicated for and communicated through our world today. With each post, we look at the ways that structures of power like legal and political structures, financial and industrial systems, and cultural and racial disparities shape public lands. The series was conceptualized and launched by Sarah Derrick, Michelle Presley, Kaitlyn Haynal, and Taylor Johnson.

Remembering the Wilderness Act: The Influence of Policy and Power in America’s Wildest Places by Michelle Presley and Sarah Derrick
This Land is Native Land: Public Lands and Indigenous Land Management by Taylor Johnson
Pretty Privilege: The Outdoor Industry’s Influence on Public Lands by Michelle Presley
Greening Industry: Public Park Land and Urban Imaginaries by Kaitlyn Haynal
Mike Lee, "the Local," and Colonial Limitations on the Land's Subject by Joshua Smith
A Surprising and Important Reason to Protect Public Lands: The (Sustainable) Economic Benefits by Mollie Murphy
The Importance of Fire Management by Jared Macary
U.S. National Grasslands: Compromised Landscapes or Landscapes of Compromise? by Bryce Tellmann
Bears Ears and the Proposal of the Inter-Tribal Coalition: Crafting an Anticolonial Third-Space of Ecological Land Management by Jordan Christiansen and Joshua Smith
Awé Púawishe, Yellowstone National Park, and Creating “The World of the Powerful” by Chelsea Graham
Land, Knowledge, Ethics, and Incommensurability: A Response to the Public Land and Power Series by Bridie McGreavy