New media expose more climate science while shrinking comprehension needed to act on it.
Evidence
The challenges of sustaining urgency in a digital age are particularly acute in relation to climate change, given the temporal and geographical dimensions of the problem. Earth scientists may be alarmed by what they call the Great Acceleration—the speeded up, anthropogenically driven changes to Earth’s biophysical systems since World War II—but most people, especially in our Age of Distraction, don’t understand rapidity the way earth scientists do. The new media have expanded public access to climate change science; however, it remains uncertain what kind of impact the agile restlessness of the new media (and the brains they are reshaping) will have on an issue of this scale. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 844
Categorization
- XREF: Directly raises the slow-noise/slow-climate parallel that is the reader’s cross-polyad curiosity — the connection point to Soundscape. — connects to: Climate fiction increasingly functions as institutional-design and information-policy thought. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 3174; Short experimental news exposure measurably shifts perceived problem importance; Knowledge becomes less clear as it approaches life’s big questions. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 66 (+6 more)
- DEFINE: Introduces the earth-sciences term ‘Great Acceleration’ alongside Nixon’s digital-age gloss.
Broader Connections
- Term choice in climate discourse measurably shifts public concern and action
#corroborates(0.82) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2703 - Press framing of a language dispute can overwhelm the environmental substance of a struggle.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 450 - Short experimental news exposure measurably shifts perceived problem importance
#corroborates(0.78) - Political experts resist media priming because dense prior knowledge absorbs new information
#qualifies(0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1580 - Agenda-setting media effects hit the least-informed citizens hardest
#corroborates(0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1628 - Media framing shifts which issues novices weigh in judging political performance
#corroborates(0.73) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1611 - Climate fiction increasingly functions as institutional-design and information-policy thought.
#corroborates(0.72) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 3174 - Knowledge becomes less clear as it approaches life’s big questions.
#corroborates(0.72) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 66 - The green scare is weaker than the red scare and needs constant media reinforcement
#exemplifies(0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 573