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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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On Monday, we will be doing our first Speaking Science 2.0presentation for the DC-area community as part of the annual meetings of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. The talk […]
In her book Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion, William & Mary anthropology professor Barbara J. King argues that religion is not so much a cognitively-derived […]
With the semester finally winding down, over the weekend, I updated the tabs “What is Framing?” and “Popular Science vs. Framing.” These new sections of my blog explain in detail […]
Even before the publication of our Science and Washington Post commentaries, Chris and I were asked to do a number of joint talks in various cities. As attention grew to […]
Posted from La Guardia airport in transit to a talk at Cornell University. Will have more comments this weekend.
On Friday, May 4, I will be back at my doctoral alma mater to give the following presentation sponsored by the Dept. of Communication. Readers at Cornell or in the […]
As we argue in our Framing Science thesis, in order to engage a religiously diverse public on pressing problems like climate change, it’s important to offer positive and personally meaningful […]
In an op-ed today at the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s paper of record, Chris Mooney weighs in with more on our framing science thesis. Chris has been on the road […]
How do you influence conservative media outlets to take climate change seriously, re-casting the issue in a light that connects to their conservative audiences? You got it: Framing.It’s a strategy […]
Why is it so important to provide the wider American public with readily available and scientifically accurate “frames” that re-package complex issues in ways that make them personally meaningful and […]
This spring 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 semester 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 […]
The Point of Inquiry podcast is produced by the Center for Inquiry-Transnational and averages 60,000 listeners a week. In this week’s show, host DJ Grothe and I engage in a […]
If anyone should understand how to effectively communicate with the broader public about teaching evolution in schools, it’s Dr. Steve Case. He’s assistant director of the Center for Science Education […]
A small yet very vocal contingent of critics continue to ferociously attack our Framing Science thesis. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left wondering why. Here are two observations posted […]
The transcript of the interview I did last week at NPR’s On the Media is now available. In the interview, I restate exactly what we argued first at Science and […]
To be honest, I hadn’t seen the online program Bloggingheads.tv before. But today they offer a pretty substantive discussion of our Framing Science thesis. Apparently the host agrees with us. […]
NPR’s Richard Harris reports on the UN National Security Council’s attempt to recast global warming as really a matter of national and global security. Trinifar has all the details and […]
The Discovery Institute have a blog post up commenting on our WPost Outlook article. Given this latest response to our Framing Science thesis, I wanted to take time out from […]
Bora continues to play a very important role in synthesizing and interpreting the whole strange chorus that seems to be going on in reaction to our Framing Science thesis. In […]