Saffron O''Neill
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3720398 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Saffron O''Neill |
| NOMBRES | Saffron |
| APELLIDO | O''Neill |
| FIRMA | NEILL S O |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9062-6247 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 947 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Climate and Environmental Coverage in Popular Entertainment Television
Environmental and climate discourse has spread into entertainment media, but research to date has mostly focused on direct climate fiction (cli-fi) productions. This study analyzes the subtitles of 115,000 TV episodes from popular global TV shows, across time and geography, to understand prevalent depictions of environmental and climate issues and how entertainment television has contributed to these conversations. This study is interdisciplinary…
How Does GenAI “See” Climate Change
Visualising climate change is a challenge for journalists. Climate images can be clichéd, disconnected and even divergent from information communicated by other modalities (such as text); and can represent a missed opportunity to engage audiences. Generative AI could potentially provide transformative opportunities to visually illustrate climate news. However, risks may include reinforcing stereotyped, inaccurate or unethical visual content, with…
Transformative journalisms and the seductive power of imagery in digital climate niche journalism
Recent debates around “transformative journalisms” in climate journalism present emerging ways to renegotiate the traditional norm of journalistic objectivity by blurring the boundaries between science, advocacy, and journalism. This paper draws similarity between the seductive powers of journalistic objectivity and of naturalism in news photography, exploring the ways these collide and interact when brought together in the context of image selec…
How am I Supposed to do this?”
Global Dynamics of Climate Change Imagery
This study examines how climate change is visually framed on Twitter/X and how these frames influence users’ emotional responses and engagement across languages. Using automated image analysis of over three million images posted between 2019 and 2022, we identify nine dominant visual frames. “Public Engagement: Politics & Events” was most prevalent, interactive visuals such as memes generated the highest engagement but predominantly negative resp…
Visual Politics, Protest, and Power
Despite the importance of visual imagery for how people conceptualise issues in the news media, most research on journalism and communication prioritises textual media. This research examines the visual imagery accompanying news stories about the 2021 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow (COP26). Using a mixed-methods approach, we analyse over 1,300 images from eight UK news outlets using content and critical visual discourse analysis. We then contextual…
Overcoming (vegan) burnout
Moralized minority actors can play important roles in social change processes by rejecting majority social norms and modeling alternative societal pathways. However, being a minority actor can be difficult, often resulting in stigma, derogation, and hostility from the majority group. For actions intrinsically linked with daily life (e.g., eating), such social obstacles might become so great that individuals acting alone experience activist burnou…
Talk amongst yourselves’
The use of a moderator has become ubiquitous when using focus groups for social science research.While a skilled moderator can facilitate discussion, we argue that, in some instances, moderators can potentially hinder the generation of the types of group discussions that academic researchers may seek to access.In this paper we outline some of the challenges associated with moderated focus groups and propose a complimentary methodology: a remotely…
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 …
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes
Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems
Discussion of Climate Change on Reddit
Studies of climate discourse on social media platforms often find evidence of polarization, echo chambers, and misinformation. However, the literature’s overwhelming reliance on Twitter makes it difficult to understand whether these phenomena generalize across other social media platforms. Here we present the first study to examine climate change discourse on Reddit, a popular – yet understudied – locus for climate debate. This contributes to the…
Defining a visual metonym
From television news bulletins, newspapers and magazines, documentaries and films, social media memes and cartooning, to protest and art – even to the images that spontaneously come into our minds – polar bears are now ubiquitously associated with climate change. Indeed, polar bear visuals now often mean nothing but climate change. Why do polar bear images, as a particular type of climate change imagery, continue to thrive and to circulate – and …
The Greta effect
Between adaptive capacity and action
Research on social vulnerability and adaptation to climate change assumes that increasing amounts of adaptive capacity increase the likelihood of actions to adapt to climate change. We test this assumption as it applies at the scale of households, through a study of the relationship between adaptive capacity and household actions to adapt to wildfire risk in Mount Dandenong, Australia. Here we show a weak relationship exists between adaptive capa…
Youth perceptions of climate change
Despite the scale of the predicted impact of climate change on future generations, most of the academic literature investigating perceptions of climate change relates to adults or young adults rather than children and adolescents. In this review, we synthesize literature relating to 8‐ to 19‐year‐old's perceptions and understandings of climate change, in order to identify trends and inconsistencies, potential gaps in knowledge, and directions for…
Online misinformation about climate change
Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation, who is involved, how does it spread, why does it matter, and what can be done about it? Climate change misinformation is closely linked to climate change skepticism, denial, and contrarianism. A network of actors are involved in financing, producing, and amplifying misinformati…
Could Vegans and Lycra Cyclists be Bad for the Planet? Theorizing the Role of Moralized Minority Practice Identities in Processes of Societal‐Level Change
Shifting society to more sustainable modes of consumption poses significant challenges to the way people live their lives. Many everyday practices commensurate with addressing sustainability goals are currently minority pursuits, especially in highly industrialized countries. Such minority practices often come to form the basis of social identities (e.g., as “vegans” or “cyclists”). These moralized minority practice identities (MMPIs) represent t…
(En)visioning place‐based adaptation to sea‐level rise
Sustainable climate change adaptation requires an understanding of people's place attachments, so that potential impacts and trade‐offs are illuminated when making adaptation decisions. Methods are needed that elucidate these important, but often intangible, place attachments at risk. A study was undertaken to explore place attachment, and how these person–place bonds might be impacted by flooding and sea‐level rise. It engaged with a small town …
Examining bushfire policy in action
Investigating the effects of knowledge and ideology on climate change beliefs
The divergence of public opinion and climate science in the English‐speaking world, particularly the United States and Australia, has attracted a variety of explanations. One of the more interesting accounts, from a psychological perspective, is the influence of ideology on climate change beliefs. Previous work suggests that ideology trumps knowledge in shaping climate change beliefs. However, these studies have typically examined the influence o…
Climate change and visual imagery
Many actors—including scientists, journalists, artists, and campaigning organizations—create visualizations of climate change. In doing so, they evoke climate change in particular ways, and make the issue meaningful in everyday discourse. While a diversity of climate change imagery exists, particular types of climate imagery appear to have gained dominance, promoting particular ways of knowing about climate change (and marginalizing others). This…
Public engagement with climate change
Climate change is an issue with fundamental implications for societies and individuals. These implications range from our everyday choices about resource use and lifestyles, through how we adjust to an unprecedented rate of environmental change, to our role in debating and enacting accompanying social transitions. This article outlines the various ways in which members of society (‘publics’) may be engaged in efforts to mitigate and adapt to clim…
On the use of imagery for climate change engagement
Image matters
Fear Won't Do It
Fear-inducing representations of climate change are widely employed in the public domain. However, there is a lack of clarity in the literature about the impacts that fearful messages in climate change communications have on people's senses of engagement with the issue and associated implications for public engagement strategies. Some literature suggests that using fearful representations of climate change may be counterproductive. The authors ex…
Maladaptation
On the use of imagery for climate change engagement
Image matters
Public engagement with carbon and climate change
Reorienting Climate Change Communication for Effective Mitigation
Climate communication approaches expend significant resources promoting attitudinal change, but research suggests that encouraging attitudinal change alone is unlikely to be effective. The link between an individual's attitudes and subsequent behavior is mediated by other influences, such as social norms and the “free-rider” effect. One way to engender mitigative behaviors would be to introduce regulation that forces green behavior, but governmen…
Climate change and visual imagery
Many actors—including scientists, journalists, artists, and campaigning organizations—create visualizations of climate change. In doing so, they evoke climate change in particular ways, and make the issue meaningful in everyday discourse. While a diversity of climate change imagery exists, particular types of climate imagery appear to have gained dominance, promoting particular ways of knowing about climate change (and marginalizing others). This…
Online misinformation about climate change
Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation, who is involved, how does it spread, why does it matter, and what can be done about it? Climate change misinformation is closely linked to climate change skepticism, denial, and contrarianism. A network of actors are involved in financing, producing, and amplifying misinformati…
An iconic approach for representing climate change
The Greta effect
Public engagement with climate change
Climate change is an issue with fundamental implications for societies and individuals. These implications range from our everyday choices about resource use and lifestyles, through how we adjust to an unprecedented rate of environmental change, to our role in debating and enacting accompanying social transitions. This article outlines the various ways in which members of society (‘publics’) may be engaged in efforts to mitigate and adapt to clim…
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 …
Youth perceptions of climate change
Despite the scale of the predicted impact of climate change on future generations, most of the academic literature investigating perceptions of climate change relates to adults or young adults rather than children and adolescents. In this review, we synthesize literature relating to 8‐ to 19‐year‐old's perceptions and understandings of climate change, in order to identify trends and inconsistencies, potential gaps in knowledge, and directions for…
Could Vegans and Lycra Cyclists be Bad for the Planet? Theorizing the Role of Moralized Minority Practice Identities in Processes of Societal‐Level Change
Shifting society to more sustainable modes of consumption poses significant challenges to the way people live their lives. Many everyday practices commensurate with addressing sustainability goals are currently minority pursuits, especially in highly industrialized countries. Such minority practices often come to form the basis of social identities (e.g., as “vegans” or “cyclists”). These moralized minority practice identities (MMPIs) represent t…
Climate Change or Social Change? Debate within, amongst, and beyond Disciplines
There is no abstract for this paper
Defining a visual metonym
From television news bulletins, newspapers and magazines, documentaries and films, social media memes and cartooning, to protest and art – even to the images that spontaneously come into our minds – polar bears are now ubiquitously associated with climate change. Indeed, polar bear visuals now often mean nothing but climate change. Why do polar bear images, as a particular type of climate change imagery, continue to thrive and to circulate – and …
Investigating the effects of knowledge and ideology on climate change beliefs
The divergence of public opinion and climate science in the English‐speaking world, particularly the United States and Australia, has attracted a variety of explanations. One of the more interesting accounts, from a psychological perspective, is the influence of ideology on climate change beliefs. Previous work suggests that ideology trumps knowledge in shaping climate change beliefs. However, these studies have typically examined the influence o…
Overcoming (vegan) burnout
Moralized minority actors can play important roles in social change processes by rejecting majority social norms and modeling alternative societal pathways. However, being a minority actor can be difficult, often resulting in stigma, derogation, and hostility from the majority group. For actions intrinsically linked with daily life (e.g., eating), such social obstacles might become so great that individuals acting alone experience activist burnou…
Talk amongst yourselves’
The use of a moderator has become ubiquitous when using focus groups for social science research.While a skilled moderator can facilitate discussion, we argue that, in some instances, moderators can potentially hinder the generation of the types of group discussions that academic researchers may seek to access.In this paper we outline some of the challenges associated with moderated focus groups and propose a complimentary methodology: a remotely…
(En)visioning place‐based adaptation to sea‐level rise
Sustainable climate change adaptation requires an understanding of people's place attachments, so that potential impacts and trade‐offs are illuminated when making adaptation decisions. Methods are needed that elucidate these important, but often intangible, place attachments at risk. A study was undertaken to explore place attachment, and how these person–place bonds might be impacted by flooding and sea‐level rise. It engaged with a small town …
Social Structures and Structural Ethics
Modern principles of morality are inadequate for solving the structural problems faced by contemporary societies. Early in the modern epoch the normative, social concept of nature that had supported Greek, Roman, and medieval ethical theories, became transformed into a purely empirical, private one. Thus for Hobbes, Locke, and most eighteenth-century political theorists, the “state of nature” referred to the opposite of a social state, ruled by l…
Global Dynamics of Climate Change Imagery
This study examines how climate change is visually framed on Twitter/X and how these frames influence users’ emotional responses and engagement across languages. Using automated image analysis of over three million images posted between 2019 and 2022, we identify nine dominant visual frames. “Public Engagement: Politics & Events” was most prevalent, interactive visuals such as memes generated the highest engagement but predominantly negative resp…
Examining bushfire policy in action
Social Structures and Structural Ethics
Modern principles of morality are inadequate for solving the structural problems faced by contemporary societies. Early in the modern epoch the normative, social concept of nature that had supported Greek, Roman, and medieval ethical theories, became transformed into a purely empirical, private one. Thus for Hobbes, Locke, and most eighteenth-century political theorists, the “state of nature” referred to the opposite of a social state, ruled by l…
Reorienting Climate Change Communication for Effective Mitigation
Climate communication approaches expend significant resources promoting attitudinal change, but research suggests that encouraging attitudinal change alone is unlikely to be effective. The link between an individual's attitudes and subsequent behavior is mediated by other influences, such as social norms and the “free-rider” effect. One way to engender mitigative behaviors would be to introduce regulation that forces green behavior, but governmen…
An iconic approach for representing climate change
Maladaptation
Fear Won't Do It
Fear-inducing representations of climate change are widely employed in the public domain. However, there is a lack of clarity in the literature about the impacts that fearful messages in climate change communications have on people's senses of engagement with the issue and associated implications for public engagement strategies. Some literature suggests that using fearful representations of climate change may be counterproductive. The authors ex…
Green identity, green living? The role of pro-environmental self-identity in determining consistency across diverse pro-environmental behaviours
Engaging the Public with Climate Change
Public engagement with carbon and climate change
Climate Change or Social Change? Debate within, amongst, and beyond Disciplines
There is no abstract for this paper
Engaging the Public with Climate Change
Responding to bushfire risk
The 2009 Black Saturday bushfires led to 172 civilian deaths, and were proclaimed as one of Australias worst natural disasters. The Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission was set up in the wake of the fires to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of each fatality. Here, results from an analysis undertaken for the Commission to examine the household preparedness policy Prepare, Stay and Defend, or Leave Early (Stay or Go), plus an exa…
OP78 Scientists, Competing Interests, and the Media
Background Concerns were raised about the competing interests amongst scientists on advisory committees during the 2009/10 H1N1 influenza pandemic, particularly given the substantial public expenditure on antiviral drugs and vaccines. The media is known to strongly influence public demand for new drugs and policy decisions, and many scientists commented on the use of pharmaceutical products/emerging health risks during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in t…
Climate change and visual imagery
Many actors—including scientists, journalists, artists, and campaigning organizations—create visualizations of climate change. In doing so, they evoke climate change in particular ways, and make the issue meaningful in everyday discourse. While a diversity of climate change imagery exists, particular types of climate imagery appear to have gained dominance, promoting particular ways of knowing about climate change (and marginalizing others). This…
Public engagement with climate change
Climate change is an issue with fundamental implications for societies and individuals. These implications range from our everyday choices about resource use and lifestyles, through how we adjust to an unprecedented rate of environmental change, to our role in debating and enacting accompanying social transitions. This article outlines the various ways in which members of society (‘publics’) may be engaged in efforts to mitigate and adapt to clim…
On the use of imagery for climate change engagement
Image matters
Investigating the effects of knowledge and ideology on climate change beliefs
The divergence of public opinion and climate science in the English‐speaking world, particularly the United States and Australia, has attracted a variety of explanations. One of the more interesting accounts, from a psychological perspective, is the influence of ideology on climate change beliefs. Previous work suggests that ideology trumps knowledge in shaping climate change beliefs. However, these studies have typically examined the influence o…
(En)visioning place‐based adaptation to sea‐level rise
Sustainable climate change adaptation requires an understanding of people's place attachments, so that potential impacts and trade‐offs are illuminated when making adaptation decisions. Methods are needed that elucidate these important, but often intangible, place attachments at risk. A study was undertaken to explore place attachment, and how these person–place bonds might be impacted by flooding and sea‐level rise. It engaged with a small town …
Examining bushfire policy in action
Between adaptive capacity and action
Research on social vulnerability and adaptation to climate change assumes that increasing amounts of adaptive capacity increase the likelihood of actions to adapt to climate change. We test this assumption as it applies at the scale of households, through a study of the relationship between adaptive capacity and household actions to adapt to wildfire risk in Mount Dandenong, Australia. Here we show a weak relationship exists between adaptive capa…
Youth perceptions of climate change
Despite the scale of the predicted impact of climate change on future generations, most of the academic literature investigating perceptions of climate change relates to adults or young adults rather than children and adolescents. In this review, we synthesize literature relating to 8‐ to 19‐year‐old's perceptions and understandings of climate change, in order to identify trends and inconsistencies, potential gaps in knowledge, and directions for…
Online misinformation about climate change
Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation, who is involved, how does it spread, why does it matter, and what can be done about it? Climate change misinformation is closely linked to climate change skepticism, denial, and contrarianism. A network of actors are involved in financing, producing, and amplifying misinformati…
Could Vegans and Lycra Cyclists be Bad for the Planet? Theorizing the Role of Moralized Minority Practice Identities in Processes of Societal‐Level Change
Shifting society to more sustainable modes of consumption poses significant challenges to the way people live their lives. Many everyday practices commensurate with addressing sustainability goals are currently minority pursuits, especially in highly industrialized countries. Such minority practices often come to form the basis of social identities (e.g., as “vegans” or “cyclists”). These moralized minority practice identities (MMPIs) represent t…
The Greta effect
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes
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