Brian Cozen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Cozen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Cozen |
| SIGNATURE | COZEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speculative Feasibility
This essay analyzes the Nuclear Alternative Project (NAP), a nonprofit advocacy effort to build the case for powering Puerto Rico's future with nuclear energy. NAP's textual materials situate nuclear energy as a neglected source that, if taken seriously, supported, and categorized as green, would emerge as a viable electricity generation source. While NAP reveals ways nuclear energy is not currently viable for Puerto Rico, it also builds a narrat…
Nuclear zelus
This essay engages rhetorics of zeal, a common genre of contemporary discourse that merits further study. To focus on a representative example, we draw from multi-sited rhetorical fieldwork at nuclear science conferences and supplementary texts, examining the rhetoric of nuclear professionals’ zealous advocacy of nuclear power as a response to climate change and energy poverty. A common set of arguments appears throughout our texts: jealousy or e…
Energy Communication
This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, …
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis
We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame. Whereas this frame can be productive, it can also be limiting. In response, we propose three areas for future energy communication research—internal rhetoric of science, comparative studies, and energy in everyday life—as starting points for rethinking and expanding energy com…
Passé Media
This essay proposes the concept of “passé media” as a contribution to scholarship that combines communication and geography, as well as to work that foregrounds background processes of networked, digitized social production. Passé media, communication and transportation technologies that both connect endpoints and are acclaimed only until the next technology arrives, reveal at least three attributes: (1) a novel way to conceptualize mobility, (2)…
Mobilizing Artists
This essay examines the Canary Project's Green Patriot Posters campaign as activist art that collectively comments on the cultural coherence of our current relations to the environment, particularly in terms of global warming, sustainability, and the concept of linear economic growth. Aspiring to bring together artists under the eco-activist umbrella, the Canary Project relies on an old WWII-inspired frame with a narrow premise of that period's c…
This Pear is a Rhetorical Tool
This essay examines the food imagery in three energy company advertising campaigns—Shell's “Real Energy,” Chevron's “Human EnergyTM,” and Waste Management's “Think Green®” – arguing that food images help essentialize the energy product. The advertising discourse relies on the historical context that ties food to energy through a growth model. This discourse likens each to the point of exchange from “raw” nature to “cooked” culture: food fills bod…
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis
We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame. Whereas this frame can be productive, it can also be limiting. In response, we propose three areas for future energy communication research—internal rhetoric of science, comparative studies, and energy in everyday life—as starting points for rethinking and expanding energy com…
This Pear is a Rhetorical Tool
This essay examines the food imagery in three energy company advertising campaigns—Shell's “Real Energy,” Chevron's “Human EnergyTM,” and Waste Management's “Think Green®” – arguing that food images help essentialize the energy product. The advertising discourse relies on the historical context that ties food to energy through a growth model. This discourse likens each to the point of exchange from “raw” nature to “cooked” culture: food fills bod…
Mobilizing Artists
This essay examines the Canary Project's Green Patriot Posters campaign as activist art that collectively comments on the cultural coherence of our current relations to the environment, particularly in terms of global warming, sustainability, and the concept of linear economic growth. Aspiring to bring together artists under the eco-activist umbrella, the Canary Project relies on an old WWII-inspired frame with a narrow premise of that period's c…
Passé Media
This essay proposes the concept of “passé media” as a contribution to scholarship that combines communication and geography, as well as to work that foregrounds background processes of networked, digitized social production. Passé media, communication and transportation technologies that both connect endpoints and are acclaimed only until the next technology arrives, reveal at least three attributes: (1) a novel way to conceptualize mobility, (2)…
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis
We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame. Whereas this frame can be productive, it can also be limiting. In response, we propose three areas for future energy communication research—internal rhetoric of science, comparative studies, and energy in everyday life—as starting points for rethinking and expanding energy com…
Energy Communication
This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, …
Nuclear zelus
This essay engages rhetorics of zeal, a common genre of contemporary discourse that merits further study. To focus on a representative example, we draw from multi-sited rhetorical fieldwork at nuclear science conferences and supplementary texts, examining the rhetoric of nuclear professionals’ zealous advocacy of nuclear power as a response to climate change and energy poverty. A common set of arguments appears throughout our texts: jealousy or e…
Speculative Feasibility
This essay analyzes the Nuclear Alternative Project (NAP), a nonprofit advocacy effort to build the case for powering Puerto Rico's future with nuclear energy. NAP's textual materials situate nuclear energy as a neglected source that, if taken seriously, supported, and categorized as green, would emerge as a viable electricity generation source. While NAP reveals ways nuclear energy is not currently viable for Puerto Rico, it also builds a narrat…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)