Tag: Declan Fahy

• Diagnosing a Migraine: How Popular Science Helped A Writer Cope

  10 days ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  --Guest post by Declan Fahy, AoE’s Science and Culture correspondent. Can popular science writing help diagnose a medical condition? It did for me. Since I was a teenager I had been suffering occasionally from crippling headaches that made me nauseous and bed-bound, sometimes for days. Before ... Read More

• Localizing Environmental Communication

  about 1 month ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  --Guest post by Alyssa Martori, American University graduate student. People around the world working toward environmental preservation, conservation, and sustainability are often described as part of a global environmental movement.  But for decades this movement has been hindered by a lack of ... Read More

• Science Journalism in an Evolving Media Ecosystem

  about 1 month ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  --Guest post by Josephine Chu, graduate student at American University. In the last ten years, the rise of a variety of web-based and social media platforms has dramatically changed the role of the science journalist.  No longer do people have to rely on traditional media to learn about a new ... Read More

• A Dangerous Method: Jung, Freud, and the Pursuit of Scientific Legitimacy

  4 months ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  --Guest post by Declan Fahy, AoE’s Science and Culture correspondent. Writer David Milch, a creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood, was quoted in a talk by author Michael Crichton as saying that the scientific method was antithetical to storytelling. The point was that that the painstaking process of ... Read More

• The Media-Making of Stephen Hawking

  4 months ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  -- Guest post by Declan Fahy, AoE Science and Culture Correspondent (Twitter @fahydeclan) The media largely failed to give a measured account of its role in Stephen Hawking’s life and career when it reported the physicist's seventieth birthday last week, I argue in an article published today at ... Read More

• Be Strident, Hitchens Tells Dawkins in His Final Interview

  5 months ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  --Guest post by Declan Fahy, AoE Science & Culture correspondent Richard Dawkins guest-edited the Christmas edition of British left-wing politics and culture magazine The New Statesman -- and it contains an interview he conducted with his fellow anti-theist Christopher Hitchens, the writer’s ... Read More

• The Evolving Role of Journalists in the New Science-Media Ecosystem

  5 months ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  Following up on our study analyzing the shifting roles and emerging practices of science journalists in the digital age, Declan Fahy contributed a valuable discussion to the news site of the British Association of Science Writers which I have reposted below. Also see Fahy's article at CJR.org and a ... Read More

• PepsiCo Accused of Deceptive Advertising to Teens with Hotel626 and Asylum 626 Digital Marketing Campaigns

  7 months ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  --Guest post by Declan Fahy, American University. The interactive horror-themed websites Hotel626.com and Asylum626.com are the cornerstones of a complaint filed last week by a coalition of four consumer and privacy groups accusing PesiCo and its Frito-Lay subsidiary of “deceptive and unfair ... Read More

• Washington DC Communication Research Series Examines the Climate Change Debate, Celebrity Scientists, the Iraq War, and Public Diplomacy

  8 months ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  Readers in the Washington, DC area are invited to join us at American University this Fall semester for a seminar series sponsored by the Doctoral program in Communication.  The seminars will be held in Bender Library (map) with speakers, dates and times below. Video and podcasts based on the ... Read More

• Can Chemists Do a Better Job of Engaging the Public?

  9 months ago

  Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

  The communication of chemistry to wider society is difficult because of 'chemophobia', its inherent complexity and its lack of unifying grand themes, explain Matt Hartings and Declan Fahy in an article this week at Nature Chemistry.  They recommend that in order to engage with citizens about the ... Read More