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Matthew C. Nisbet
Associate Professor of Communication, Northeastern University
Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. Nisbet studies the role of communication and advocacy in policymaking and public affairs, focusing on debates over over climate change, energy, and sustainability. Among awards and recognition, Nisbet has been a Visiting Shorenstein Fellow on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, a Health Policy Investigator at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a Google Science Communication Fellow. In 2011, the editors at the journal Nature recommended Nisbet's research as “essential reading for anyone with a passing interest in the climate change debate,” and the New Republic highlighted his work as a “fascinating dissection of the shortcomings of climate activism."
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In the Sunday NY Times Book Review, the conservative satirist PJ O’Rourke reviews Taylor Clark’s Starbucked, an investigative and sociological look at the rise of America’s most prominent coffee chain.For […]
Pew has released its annual analysis of the top 20 most followed news stories of the year by the public. Pew pairs the survey data with a summary of their […]
Dear readers,I have spent the weekend battling a major case of the flu and unfortunately tomorrow’s Framing Science talk at Princeton University has been postponed. I am hoping it can […]
Artist rendition of nanobot assisting in reproduction.As I highlighted last week, in the latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology my colleague Dietram Scheufele is the lead author on a survey analysis […]
For readers on campus or in the area, on Monday I will be giving a lecture hosted by the Program in Science, Technology, & Environmental Policy (STEP) at Princeton University’s […]
On January 4, the National Academies will release its revised and updated report on Science, Evolution, & Creationism. After the news conference that day, the booklet and brochure will be […]
This fall in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
This fall in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
You can debate the wisdom of spending more than $100 million a year on your athletics program or whether you want someone like Jim Tressel to be the national face […]
My colleague Dietram Scheufele is lead author on a study in the latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology. In their survey work, Scheufele et al. find that experts are more concerned […]
Conservatives are promoting Bush as the biomedical Atticus Finch. Shown here posing with a “snowflake” baby, adopted and born from left over in vitro clinic embryos.Some collected thoughts on what […]
James Thomson w/ Ian Wilmut (seated)What happens politically when the two scientists most widely associated with therapeutic cloning and embryonic stem cell research appear to abandon cloning and embryo extraction […]
At the Columbia Journalism Review, managing editor Brent Cunningham argues for a new journalistic beat that covers the obscuring uses of language and messaging in politics. The essay is part […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson understands the central role of framing in communication and it’s a major reason that Tyson is perhaps the most effective science popularizer of his generation. In a […]
Pew has posted advertising revenue analysis for major magazines over the past year. Not surprisingly, the “big three” news magazines continue to suffer, other mags such as The New Yorker […]
Pundits and journalists continue to speculate about whether or not conservative Republicans will get strongly behind a Rudy Giuliani presidential run. As it stands right now, according to a recent […]
The studios of Point of InquiryFor those in the DC area, Wednesday evening I will be speaking at the one year anniversary of the Center for Inquiry’s Public Policy office […]
Each Monday evening in November, AAAS is sponsoring a series of panel discussions on major issues in science and technology policy. The panels are hosted by NPR reporters Joe Palca […]
“Sandwalk” blogger Larry MoranIf the blog debate that ensued after publication of our article at Science showed anything, it was just how widely misunderstood the concept of framing might be. […]
[Image from Salon.com feature on panelist Barbara J. King]Full details are now available for the previously announced panel on Communicating Science in a Religious America at February’s AAAS meetings in […]