John Painter
Biographic Data
| ID | 211567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Painter |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Painter |
| SIGNATURE | PAINTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4155-6243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Climate Change Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI), and especially generative AI (GenAI), is rapidly reshaping climate change communication (CCC). Once dominated by news coverage and public campaigns, CCC now extends across scientists, NGOs, corporations, journalists, influencers, and citizens—all increasingly encountering and adopting AI tools. This article provides a comprehensive review of scholarship on the nexus of AI and CCC, synthesizing insights scattered acro…
English and Regional Media Coverage of the 2022 Heatwave in India
The 2022 heatwave in India formed part of a pattern of extreme weather events in the country, which are becoming more intense, frequent, or prolonged. The aim of this study is to explore media coverage of climate change and extreme events in a multilingual media context such as India. Data analysis of a large and diverse sample of Indian media coverage of the 2022 heatwave (n = 309) suggests that only 1 in every 7 news articles (14%) mentioned cl…
Think tank output as media input
Transnational networks of neoliberal think tanks have invested time and resources in creating cross-country strategy mobility to oppose climate action. Building on strategy mobility research directed against renewable energy policy, we ask how think tank studies circulate in media outlets both within and across borders, and what role the media plays in the effort to shape the energy transition. We examine the role of a US-based think tank, the In…
Niche climate news sites and the changing context of covering catastrophe
One of the most significant and understudied changes in climate journalism in recent years, and the focus us this study, is the establishment of new niche sites. These sites, which are dedicated exclusively to covering climate-related issues, are now some of the most important sources of climate information. Drawing on interviews with site founders and editors, we explore the experiences and knowledge of these climate journalism innovators to gle…
Extreme Weather Events as Teachable Moments
Extreme weather events are often described as teachable moments for climate change. In this article, we explore insights about the concept of teachable moments from healthcare literature and apply them to the climate change communication context. Specifically, we adapt Flocke et al.’s (2012. A teachable moment communication process for smoking cessation talk: description of a group randomized clinician-focused intervention. BMC Health Services Re…
What do Consumers Read About Meat? An Analysis of Media Representations of the Meat-environment Relationship Found in Popular Online News Sites in the UK
Previous scholarship suggests that elite media have tended to pay little attention to the adverse environmental impacts associated with meat consumption and production. Through content analysis of 116 articles from 2019, published on eight popular online news sites consumed by a wide range of demographics in the UK, including lower-income groups (the sector most likely to eat meat), we identify common anti-meat and pro-meat environmental narrativ…
What’s cooking? The normalization of meat in YouTube recipe videos consumed by South Asian British Muslims
Muslim consumers in the UK eat more meat than the national average. Individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds, particularly South Asian communities, experience poorer health outcomes, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease, associated with meat consumption. According to a YouGov survey, British Pakistani and Bangladeshi consumers use television cookery programs and social media (particularly YouTube) as their main digital sources of die…
Visual portrayals of fun in the sun in European news outlets misrepresent heatwave risks
The ways in which news media communicate about heatwaves can influence how society conceptualises and addresses heatwave risks. We examined visual news coverage of the 2019 heatwaves in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, using content and visual critical discourse analyses. Many visuals were positively valenced (in contrast to article texts), framing heatwaves as ‘fun in the sun’. The most prevalent type of images in all countries were …
The Science of Climate Conversations
Dialogue-based approaches are crucially important for engaging the public about climate change. This entails going beyond a one-way information transfer to facilitating spaces in which diverse individuals can express their beliefs, emotions, opinions, and uncertainties about climate change in discussions with others. However, only a limited number of empirical studies have been published on best practices, dynamics, and effects of climate convers…
One person’s meat is another’s poison
Mainstream media play a central role in shaping the ways diet and nutrition are discussed in the public sphere, yet few studies have explored its depictions of the meat-health nexus. Focusing on eight of the most popular news online sites consumed by lower-income groups in the UK—the demographic most likely to eat meat, according to a survey conducted for this study—we carried out content analysis of 128 articles. We found, first, a multiplicity …
The Journalism in Climate Change Websites
Survey results from news consumers around the world suggest that specialist or niche websites covering climate change are now one of the most important sources of climate information. However, there is very little detailed scholarship about these sites. We carried out semi-structured interviews with senior representatives of 14 online information sites, based in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries, which prioritize the provision…
Climate of hope or doom and gloom? Testing the climate change hope vs. fear communications debate through online videos
“What’s Up with the Weather?” Public Engagement with Extreme Event Attribution in the United Kingdom
The science of extreme event attribution (EEA)—which connects specific extreme weather events with anthropogenic climate change—could prove useful for engaging the public about climate change. However, there is limited empirical research examining EEA as a climate change communication tool. To help fill this gap, we conducted focus groups with members of the U.K. public to explore benefits and challenges of utilizing EEA results in climate change…
Animal Agriculture and Climate Change in the US and UK Elite Media
Animal agriculture is a major producer of greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to 14.5% of global emissions, which is approximately the same size as the transportation sector. Global meat consumption is projected to grow, which will increase animal agriculture's negative impact on the environment. Public awareness of the link between animal food consumption and climate change is low; this may be one of many obstacles to more effective interventio…
Power, the Pacific Islands, and the Prestige Press
While studies have investigated UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings as drivers of climate change reporting as well as the geopolitical role of Pacific Islands in these international forums, little research examines the intersection: how media coverage of Pacific Islands and climate change (PICC) may be influenced by, or may influence, UNFCCC meetings. We analyze two decades of reporting on PICC in American, British, and Au…
Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change
In summer 2019, several countries in Europe experienced unprecedented heatwaves. Two extreme event attribution (EEA) studies, which assess the role of climate change in extreme weather events, were published at roughly the same time as the heatwaves were taking place (June/August 2019). Building on a prior study of online news media coverage of the heatwaves, this study surveyed journalists from major news outlets in France, Germany, the Netherla…
Media Representation of Extreme Event Attribution
Extreme event attribution (EEA) is a relatively new branch of climate science combining weather observations and modeling to assess and quantify whether and to what extent anthropogenic climate change altered extreme weather events (such as heat waves, droughts, and floods). Such weather events are frequently depicted in the media, which enhances the potential of EEA coverage to serve as a tool to communicate on-the-ground climate impacts to the …
The 2019 review of Ipbes and future priorities
2019, 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an independent scientific body focused on assessing the state of the world's ecosystem services and biodiversity. IPBES members agreed in 2017 that a review of the Platform's first work programme should be undertaken by an independent panel examining all aspec…
Climate journalism in a changing media ecosystem
Climate journalism gathers, evaluates, selects, and presents information about climate change, its characteristics, causes, and impacts, as well as ways to mitigate it, and distributes them via technical media to general and specialist audiences. It is an important source of information about climate change for many people. Currently, however, the media ecosystem surrounding climate journalism is changing, with economic conditions becoming more s…
Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015
Climate Change in the Media
Poland is the largest hard coal producer in the European Union (EU), and remains very dependent on coal for its energy. Despite the significant long-term implications of EU mitigation policies for the Polish economy, coverage of climate change and policy in the Polish media remains very low. This study of the coverage both in print media and on television of the 2013/2014 Assessment Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows t…
Climate Change Journalism
The first question at the media conference in Incheon, South Korea launching the IPCC’s 1.5°C report was polite, but trenchant. “The IPCC has written several similar reports before,” commented Davi
How ‘Digital-born’ media cover climate change in comparison to legacy media
Climate Skepticism in British Newspapers, 2007–2011
Climate skepticism in the UK media has not been a major focus of recent research. This paper aims to help fill the gap by looking at the incidence of skeptical voices in UK newspapers across three periods: 2007, 2009/2010, and 2010/2011. After analyzing more than 3200 articles, it finds that skeptical voices increased their presence markedly across all newspapers and all types of articles in the second period, and maintained a significant presenc…
Climate Change in the Media
Recent research has shown that the journalistic portrayal of the problems of climate change as ‘risks’ rather than ‘uncertainties’ can create a stronger response from the public in terms of engagement and understanding. Understanding the concepts of risk and uncertainty – and how to communicate them – is a hotly debated issue across the scientific, management and policy-making communities. In this book, James Painter analyses how the internationa…
How ‘Digital-born’ media cover climate change in comparison to legacy media
How visibility and convenience influence candy consumption
Climate journalism in a changing media ecosystem
Climate journalism gathers, evaluates, selects, and presents information about climate change, its characteristics, causes, and impacts, as well as ways to mitigate it, and distributes them via technical media to general and specialist audiences. It is an important source of information about climate change for many people. Currently, however, the media ecosystem surrounding climate journalism is changing, with economic conditions becoming more s…
Visual portrayals of fun in the sun in European news outlets misrepresent heatwave risks
The ways in which news media communicate about heatwaves can influence how society conceptualises and addresses heatwave risks. We examined visual news coverage of the 2019 heatwaves in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, using content and visual critical discourse analyses. Many visuals were positively valenced (in contrast to article texts), framing heatwaves as ‘fun in the sun’. The most prevalent type of images in all countries were …
Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015
Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change
In summer 2019, several countries in Europe experienced unprecedented heatwaves. Two extreme event attribution (EEA) studies, which assess the role of climate change in extreme weather events, were published at roughly the same time as the heatwaves were taking place (June/August 2019). Building on a prior study of online news media coverage of the heatwaves, this study surveyed journalists from major news outlets in France, Germany, the Netherla…
Campesino
Preferred Solutions to the Energy Crisis as a Function of Causal Attributions
Results of two studies support the hypotheses that those accepting personal responsibility for the energy crisis favor and report adopting the personal “solution” of voluntary energy conservation, and those making attributions to nonpersonal causes (OPEC, oil companies, U.S. government) are most likely to favor nonpersonal solutions. Implications are discussed
The Journalism in Climate Change Websites
Survey results from news consumers around the world suggest that specialist or niche websites covering climate change are now one of the most important sources of climate information. However, there is very little detailed scholarship about these sites. We carried out semi-structured interviews with senior representatives of 14 online information sites, based in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries, which prioritize the provision…
What’s cooking? The normalization of meat in YouTube recipe videos consumed by South Asian British Muslims
Muslim consumers in the UK eat more meat than the national average. Individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds, particularly South Asian communities, experience poorer health outcomes, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease, associated with meat consumption. According to a YouGov survey, British Pakistani and Bangladeshi consumers use television cookery programs and social media (particularly YouTube) as their main digital sources of die…
The effect of pistachio shells as a visual cue in reducing caloric consumption
God and Production in a Guatemalan Town
Central American Impasse
The Science of Climate Conversations
Dialogue-based approaches are crucially important for engaging the public about climate change. This entails going beyond a one-way information transfer to facilitating spaces in which diverse individuals can express their beliefs, emotions, opinions, and uncertainties about climate change in discussions with others. However, only a limited number of empirical studies have been published on best practices, dynamics, and effects of climate convers…
Power, the Pacific Islands, and the Prestige Press
While studies have investigated UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings as drivers of climate change reporting as well as the geopolitical role of Pacific Islands in these international forums, little research examines the intersection: how media coverage of Pacific Islands and climate change (PICC) may be influenced by, or may influence, UNFCCC meetings. We analyze two decades of reporting on PICC in American, British, and Au…
In-shell pistachio nuts reduce caloric intake compared to shelled nuts
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s
Journal Article The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: beyond the Cold War Get access The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: beyond the Cold War. Edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultzand Augusto Varas. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 1992. 328pp. Index. $39.95; ISBN 0 8078 2070 9. Pb.: $15.95; ISBN 0 807 84402 0. James Painter James Painter 1BBC World Service Search for other works by this author on:…
The Church and Israel in the Gospel of John
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The Farewell Discourses and the History of Johannine Christianity
The question of ‘traces’ of history in the Fourth Gospel is not new. In 1968 Louis Martyn published his History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel . His thesis, reduced to utter simplicity, was that the Gospel is a drama presented at two levels, one concerning Jesus and the other concerning the community of the evangelist in which the Jesus tradition had been shaped. Thus the Fourth Gospel is seen as a Jewish Christian composition shaped in the di…
Preferred Solutions to the Energy Crisis as a Function of Causal Attributions
Results of two studies support the hypotheses that those accepting personal responsibility for the energy crisis favor and report adopting the personal “solution” of voluntary energy conservation, and those making attributions to nonpersonal causes (OPEC, oil companies, U.S. government) are most likely to favor nonpersonal solutions. Implications are discussed
Is there a generalized energy conservation ethic? A comparison of the determinants of gasoline and home heating energy conservation
Christology and the History of the Johannine Community in the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel
So much has been written about the Prologue that it must seem unlikely that anything new could be said about it with some claim to credibility. It is not that all problems have been resolved, or that all that needs to be said has been said. But perhaps, on the basis of existing evidence, it seems that what can be said with some probability has been said. Yet many issues remain unresolved. Are the form and content of the Prologue the consequence o…
The ‘Opponents’ in I John
The question of the ‘opponents’ in 1 John has long been recognized as significant for the study of that ‘letter’. The great commentaries by Theodor Häring, R. Law and Rudolf Schnackenburg make the conflict with the ‘schismatics’ the key to their interpretations. Most recently Raymond E. Brown 1 has presented a detailed account of the conflict in the context of the history of Johannine Christianity as the basis for his own commentary. I find mysel…
Guatemala in civilian garb
Central American Impasse
Campesino
Guatemala
Tradition and Interpretation in John 6
That John 6 was intended as a self-contained unit is clearly signalled by the evangelist, who has commenced chapters 5, 6 and 7 with μετά ταûτα, a formula that marks a new beginning. Yet there has long been controversy regarding the unity and integrity of the chapter and its present place in the Gospel. In this paper it is argued that, though independent of the Synoptics, John has made use of Synoptic-like tradition and that chapter 6 provides ev…
God and Production in a Guatemalan Town
The white labyrinth
Journal Article The white labyrinth: cocaine and political power Get access The white labyrinth: cocaine and political power. By Rensselaer W. Lee. New Brunswick, NJ, London: Transaction. 1989. 263pp. Index. £22.95. ISBN 0 88738 285 1. James Painter James Painter 1Bolivia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 3, July 1991, Page 641, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622064 Publishe…
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s
Journal Article The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: beyond the Cold War Get access The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: beyond the Cold War. Edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultzand Augusto Varas. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 1992. 328pp. Index. $39.95; ISBN 0 8078 2070 9. Pb.: $15.95; ISBN 0 807 84402 0. James Painter James Painter 1BBC World Service Search for other works by this author on:…
Snowfields
Journal Article Snowfields: the war on cocaine in the Andes Get access Snowfields: the war on cocaine in the Andes. By Clare Hargreaves. London: Zed Books. 1992. 202pp. Index. Pb.: £10.95. ISBN 1 85649 078 5. James Painter James Painter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1993, Pages 408–409, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621712 Published: 01 April 1993
Smoke and Mirrors
Politics and development in the Caribbean basin
Politics and development in the Caribbean basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the new world order Politics and development in the Caribbean basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the new world order. By Jean Grugel. London: Macmillan. 1995. 270pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 33 57304 8. Pb.: £11.99; ISBN 0 333 57305 6. James Painter James Painter 1BBC World Service Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar In…
Bolivia and Coca
The domestic and international impacts of the production, trade and use of coca in Bolivia have reached monumental proportions, as have the national and international efforts to suppress the country's drug trade. This book describes Bolivia's coca boom, the of its cocaine industry, and the catastrophic consequences of both. Painter explains how coca and cocaine are inextricably linked to Bolivia's long-term problems, its internal political dynami…
When Is a House Not Home? Disciples and Family in Mark 3.13–35
The paper provides a study of the disciples and family of Jesus in Mark 3.13–35. It argues, against the prevailing interpretations, that (1) Mark 3.13–35 should be viewed as a subsection of 3.13–6.13, thus 3.20–35 should not be read in isolation from 3.13–19. (2) Recognising the connection of 3.13–19 to 3.22–35 by 3.20–21 points the way to identifying the twelve as those who sought to restrain Jesus. (3) On this basis an outline reading of 3.20–3…
How visibility and convenience influence candy consumption
Bottomless Bowls
Objective: Using self‐refilling soup bowls, this study examined whether visual cues related to portion size can influence intake volume without altering either estimated intake or satiation. Research Methods and Procedures: Fifty‐four participants (BMI, 17.3 to 36.0 kg/m 2 ; 18 to 46 years of age) were recruited to participate in a study involving soup. The experiment was a between‐subject design with two visibility levels: 1) an accurate visual …
Effect of handwashing on child health
Evaluation findings on community participation in the California Healthy Cities and Communities program
As part of an evaluation of the California Healthy Cities and Communities (CHCC) program, we evaluated resident involvement, broad representation and civic engagement beyond the local CHCC initiative. The evaluation design was a case study of 20 participating communities with cross-case analysis. Data collection methods included: coalition member surveys at two points in time, semi-structured interviews with key informants, focus groups with coal…
The effect of pistachio shells as a visual cue in reducing caloric consumption
In-shell pistachio nuts reduce caloric intake compared to shelled nuts
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