2014/10/30 by Merav Katz-Kimchi, Lucy Atkinson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Environmental Science · Psychology · #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Environmental Education and Sustainability #Animal and Plant Science Education #Realm #Climate change #Science communication #Climate science #Public engagement #Communicative action #Action (physics) #Collective action #Politics #Scale (ratio) #Sociology #Contrarian #Citizenship #Public relations #Political science #Social science #Science education #Ecology #Geography #Business
paper · doi:10.1177/1075547014555998
openalex publication_date 2014/10/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Using critical discourse analysis, we examine the communicative potential of science centers to engage the public in climate change science. Drawing on a theoretical framework combining climate change engagement and communication, science centers as sites of engagement and communication, ecological citizenship, and insights from social cognitive theory, our analysis shows that along with popularizing climate science and making it accessible to the general public, the Hot Pink Flamingos exhibit prioritized individual, marketplace-based action on climate change over solutions requiring large-scale social change or collective action. Responsibility for climate change was individualized, and the political realm was mostly reduced to lifestyle choices.