A powerful example of combining the printed word with audiovisuals. Here Bill McKibben’s Washington Post op-ed, “A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes? Never!,” is narrated and enhanced by plomodmedia. This has the right balance of research and emotional appeal to help get the message across.
14.6.11
"Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections"
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This is definitely getting a repost. Still waiting for that Kick it Over essay if you get around to it!
you are more optimistic than I am in the face of peoples' cognitive biases.
thanks for the heads up about Ingold I hadn't heard of him
before but am looking forward to reading some of his works.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2011/jun/10/
@Adam - I've already forumalated an outline of sorts for it. How long should the piece be?
@Dirk - Can you elaborate re: 'cognitive biases' here? Where do you read my optimism?
I was just responding to this:
"This has the right balance of research and emotional appeal to help get the message across."
I agree that we need to flesh out these matters with more moving, less abstract, features to reach a broader audience, instead of preaching to the converted, but given what we know about the how entrenched folks' biases/predispostions/habits are I think that only more personal/long-term relationships/interactions will do the trick, which is why I think so much of Jane Addams' communal work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_biases
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