social scientist @ climate advocacy lab. climate politics, clean energy, and political comm tweets. immigrant. all views mine, especially the dumb ones.
Nov 10, 2017 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
Ok let me wade into the climate comm/polarization/communicating to conservatives conversation. I’ll admit I may have a sourer outlook on this than others in the field, but it’s borne out of my research (tinyurl.com/y7xpr39w) and how I understand polarization to work 1/
On that note, feel free to light me up, polisci and scicomm fam. In a nutshell: issue polarization (like on climate change) constrains the possibility for effective persuasive framing, meaning changing someone’s opinions and attitudes on that issue. 2/
