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“When we launch, we’ll have the largest single professional network online in the UK. The community lends itself to a social media network.” Building a framework for half a million users to share and rate teaching materials is now the focus for the Times Educational [...]

Posted on August 20, 2008 |  Alex Lockwood  |  8 Comments

In his Public Understanding of Science 2000 article ‘Knowledge, Ignorance and Popular Culture’, University of Toronto Professor Sheldon Ungar suggests the reason that public understanding and concern could coalesce around the ozone hole, where it has failed to do so for climate change, was in [...]

Posted on August 14, 2008 |  Alex Lockwood  |  31 Comments

Tony at Harmless Sky has been following , for 18 months at least, development of BBC policy on the coverage of climate change. He picks up on this line from a rather obscurely-titled BBC report on impartiality: The BBC has held a high-level seminar with [...]

Posted on August 7, 2008 |  Alex Lockwood  |  1 Comment

I spent an instructive couple of hours in the offices of the Sunderland Echo yesterday talking with their digital editor. It was an excellent opportunity to get inside a changing newsroom, with pressures of integration, industry sales and, even, writing copy. The paper is an [...]

Posted on August 4, 2008 |  Alex Lockwood  |  33 Comments

Well, that was interesting. My post on the limits to debate on cimate change has generated 40-odd comments so far (modest in the grand scheme, but detailed, and most of which has been useful and instuctive: couple of interesing sites in Devil’s Kitchen and QuestionThat). [...]

Posted on August 3, 2008 |  Alex Lockwood  |  2 Comments

I can’t make it to Climate Camp as I’ve got a couple of deadlines approaching for a book chapter and article (both on climate change–reasonable excuse?) But to do my bit I’m going to try and monitor the language that the media uses to report [...]

I'm a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and active member of the Centre for Research into Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland. I'm a practising writer and am working on my first novel, as well as being involved in a number of environmental and creative projects. My writing and research is mainly around emotions in culture.