Christensen Lab » Blog http://christensenlab.net Jon Christensen Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:16:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian http://christensenlab.net/imagining-the-digital-future-of-the-public-historian/ http://christensenlab.net/imagining-the-digital-future-of-the-public-historian/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:49:52 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=633 The digital revolution is transforming research, exhibition, writing, review, participatory public engagement, and every other aspect of public history. I recently joined a conversation with five other scholars discussing the influence of these changes and what the internet age affords … Continue reading →

The post Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/imagining-the-digital-future-of-the-public-historian/feed/ 0 Inside Ethnic and Community Media and the Environment http://christensenlab.net/ethnic-and-community-media-and-the-environment/ http://christensenlab.net/ethnic-and-community-media-and-the-environment/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:24:58 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=619 Sandy Close is the founder and director of New America Media, an organization for more than 3,000 ethnic and community newspapers, radio and television stations, magazines, and online news sources. Sandy’s visit to my class “Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene” … Continue reading →

The post Inside Ethnic and Community Media and the Environment appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/ethnic-and-community-media-and-the-environment/feed/ 0 Jamie Henn Takes Us Inside 350.org http://christensenlab.net/jamie-henn-takes-us-inside-350-org/ http://christensenlab.net/jamie-henn-takes-us-inside-350-org/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:53:35 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=591 Jamie Henn is one of the founders and the communications director of 350.org, arguably the most successful environmental communications campaign of our times. 350.org was started by Jamie and classmates at Middlebury College along with writer Bill McKibben. So Jamie’s … Continue reading →

The post Jamie Henn Takes Us Inside 350.org appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/jamie-henn-takes-us-inside-350-org/feed/ 0 Tim De Chant Takes on Life at Different Densities in the Anthropocene http://christensenlab.net/tim-de-chant/ http://christensenlab.net/tim-de-chant/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:35:28 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=585 Tim De Chant’s visit to my class “Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene” was an inspiration to students who, like Tim, have come of age in a new media landscape. Tim has made his own way in this new landscape after … Continue reading →

The post Tim De Chant Takes on Life at Different Densities in the Anthropocene appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/tim-de-chant/feed/ 0 New York Times correspondent Felicity Barringer on “Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene” http://christensenlab.net/felicity-barringer/ http://christensenlab.net/felicity-barringer/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:15:16 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=327 Going on nearly a decade as the national environmental correspondent at The New York Times, Felicity Barringer visited my class “Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene” to share hard-won insights and stories from the field. She shared some of the watchwords … Continue reading →

The post New York Times correspondent Felicity Barringer on “Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene” appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/felicity-barringer/feed/ 0 At Work with Andy Revkin at Dot Earth at The New York Times http://christensenlab.net/at-work-with-andy-revkin-at-dot-earth-at-the-new-york-times/ http://christensenlab.net/at-work-with-andy-revkin-at-dot-earth-at-the-new-york-times/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:04:41 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=574 When Andy Revkin visited my class “Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene,” it was like a live window into the ongoing seminar that he conducts at the Dot Earth blog at The New York Times. He was responding live to critics … Continue reading →

The post At Work with Andy Revkin at Dot Earth at The New York Times appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/at-work-with-andy-revkin-at-dot-earth-at-the-new-york-times/feed/ 0 Peter Kareiva on Conservation in the Anthropocene http://christensenlab.net/peter-kareiva-on-conservation-in-the-anthropocene/ http://christensenlab.net/peter-kareiva-on-conservation-in-the-anthropocene/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:05:27 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=554 Peter Kareiva, chief scientist and director of science at The Nature Conservancy, visited my class “Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene” to talk about the crucial intersections of conservation and communications, science and storytelling. Widely and often publishing in the peer-reviewed … Continue reading →

The post Peter Kareiva on Conservation in the Anthropocene appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/peter-kareiva-on-conservation-in-the-anthropocene/feed/ 1 NextGen Environmental Communications with Alexis Madrigal and Sarah Rich http://christensenlab.net/nextgen-environmental-communications-with-alexis-madrigal-and-sarah-rich/ http://christensenlab.net/nextgen-environmental-communications-with-alexis-madrigal-and-sarah-rich/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:32:28 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=544 Alexis Madrigal and Sarah Rich visited my class “Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene” to share their experiences successfully riding new waves of media in recent years. Both consider themselves of the same generation as students today, who grew up swimming … Continue reading →

The post NextGen Environmental Communications with Alexis Madrigal and Sarah Rich appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/nextgen-environmental-communications-with-alexis-madrigal-and-sarah-rich/feed/ 0 Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene http://christensenlab.net/environmental-communications-in-the-anthropocene/ http://christensenlab.net/environmental-communications-in-the-anthropocene/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:28:48 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=325 I’m delighted to be able to share podcasts from a new class I’m teaching at UCLA this winter. The formal title is Environment 150 — “Environmental Journalism, Science Communications, and New Media.” But I call it “Environmental Communications in the … Continue reading →

The post Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/environmental-communications-in-the-anthropocene/feed/ 0 Ken Weiss and Nancy Baron http://christensenlab.net/ken-weiss-and-nancy-baron/ http://christensenlab.net/ken-weiss-and-nancy-baron/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:28:05 +0000 Jon Christensen http://christensenlab.net/?p=323 In the first session of “Environmental Communications in the Anthropocene” — my informal title for the new class I am teaching at UCLA this winter — we were joined by Ken Weiss, a renowned environmental reporter and science writer for … Continue reading →

The post Ken Weiss and Nancy Baron appeared first on Christensen Lab.

]]> http://christensenlab.net/ken-weiss-and-nancy-baron/feed/ 0