Melissa Aronczyk

Looking forward to sharing my work and experiences with digital ethnography this Friday at Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group (DEWG) along with Carolina Parreiras and moderated by @aronczyk.bsky.social. See you friday!

Friday 1PM EST.
registration ✍️ www.eventbrite.com/e/doing-risk...

Aflevering 4:
over de rol van de PR- industrie en de media in klimaatobstructie met

@aronczyk.bsky.social (Rutgers University) en
@maxboykoff.bsky.social (University of Colorado)

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#MCCIConnect is off with a powerful seminar by @aronczyk.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social on A Strategic Nature
Hosted by @citystgeorges.bsky.social (Carolina Matos, Raluca Moise & @devinasarwatay.bsky.social)
Next: Graphic Refuge 19 Nov 5 pm
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
#CityStGSCC

Check out this important new open access book available today! I'm excited to be one of the contributors for Chapter 6 on Steering the Climate Discourse: Legacy News, Social Media, Advertising, and Public Relations led by @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social

Amy is an incredible journalist. She’s so good at getting academic research out to the public where it can have an impact.

An important conversation. Thanks @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @aronczyk.bsky.social larger book project led by @timmonsroberts.bsky.social (Brown University), Jennifer Jacquet (University of Miami), Carlos Milani (Rio de Janeiro State University) & Christian Downie (Australian National University)

Great conversation with Hanna Morris about her timely and important book.

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Such an honor to have had the opportunity to present my book today @ipk.bsky.social! Thanks to those who came out to my talk during this very busy #NYClimateWeek. And also thanks so much again to @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social and @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social

Experts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social @aronczyk.bsky.social and @johnfocook.bsky.social speak with @trackchangesmedia.bsky.social on the rising threat of climate disinformation in the media, solutions misinformation, and the attack on climate science and scientists themselves.

For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social.

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

Illiberal Enterprise: The Undoing of the EPA, 1970–2025 illiberalism.org | Melissa Aronczyk on the politics of dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and the roots of American illiberalism.

Next up, check out Melissa Aronczyk on the politics of dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and the roots of American illiberalism.

@aronczyk.bsky.social

Branding the nation in the era of climate crisis: Eco‐nationalism and the promotion of green national sovereignty This article examines the contemporary discourse of eco-nationalism and its promotion of national sovereignty and belonging. I consider some of the strategies, symbols and narratives by which nationa...

It appears my article in the journal Nations and Nationalism, "Branding the nation in the era of climate crisis: Eco-nationalism and the promotion of green
national sovereignty" is one of the journal's top-cited articles... :/ 😶
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Greenwashing, net-zero, and the oil sands in Canada: The case of Pathways Alliance Net-zero plans, or the target of negating an organization's carbon emissions by 2050, have proliferated among large oil and gas companies. These plans…

Out today: "Greenwashing, Net-zero, and the Oil sands in Canada: The case of Pathways Alliance" in the journal Energy Research & Social Science.
Chris Russill, Patrick McCurdy and I examine oil companies' empty promises to get to net-zero.

Open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Edelman has a list of “climate commitments” like engaging clients on net-zero. Lululemon says it’s focused on fostering a sustainable garment industry. But @aronczyk.bsky.social described the situation as a “pattern of behaviour that shows Edelman’s disregard for global environmental crises.”

The Long History of PR-Led Climate Obstruction Edelman's Koch connection is just the latest example of a longstanding marriage between environmentally destructive companies and public relations.

www.adweek.com/agencies/ede...

Edelman’s Koch Connection Follows a Long History of PR-Led Climate Obstruction via @adweek.bsky.social

Glad to be interviewed for this piece by Kathryn Lundstrom

The PR industry is not at all neutral. It will support fossil fuel interests if it pays the bills...

With thanks to editor @phaedra.bsky.social for putting together this special issue on Care and Environmental Communication

I have a new essay out in the journal Environmental Communication on the limits of debunking when it comes to exposing fossil fuel PR...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access link:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/H8DBT...

COP28 + UAE 10 AGENCIES COP28 PRESIDENCY Agency Contracts bcw fgs global APCO worldwide" CIT GROUP Edelman OMNIA Teneo viola FLEISHMANHILLAI 9 CONTRACTS WITH UAE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES, INCL. 2 FOR COP أدنوك ADNOC MASDAR 20 CONTRACTS WITH OTHER FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES FROM 2021-2023 ابنوك enoc أرامكو السعودية saudi aramco ExxonMobil NESTE أدنوك ADNOC REPSOL BHP AFPM uni për ExxonMobil سابك Sabic Sasol أدنوك أدنوك ADNOC ADNOC MASDAR centrica Chev CC

Clean Creatives reveal the suite of PR companies helping the COP Presidency who also service the fossil fuel industry. It's pretty wild how much overlap there is here.

"Most of these agencies maintain robust relationships with fossil fuel polluters"

cleancreatives.org/cop28

Please join the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group for our upcoming online event, Behind the Scenes of a Digital Ethnography Dissertation, with panelists
Michelle Cera, Zoe Glatt & Yena Lee:

www.eventbrite.com/e/behind-the...

Screenshot of the abstract for Energy Citizens “Just Like You”? Public Relations Campaigning by the Climate Change Counter-movement

New research from Caroline Sassan, Priyanka Mahat, @aronczyk.bsky.social and Robert Brulle: "Energy Citizens 'Just Like You'? Public Relations Campaigning by the Climate Change Counter-movement," investigates campaigns surrounding the Waxman-Markey bill. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar in Climate Communications and Environmental Justice.
This full-time two-year appointment may begin as early as December 1, 2023. For full posting & application information: lnkd.in/gZt8Yz4S

We're THRILLED to receive this award! Very grateful to the NCA Political Comm division for this recognition of our book. The book examines decades of PR influence on how we think about - or don't think about - environmental problems and climate change.

Climate disinfo and greenwashing researcher

American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference With three months to go until the COP28 United Nations climate talks begin in Dubai, critics have stepped up their condemnation of the decision to put Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the head of Abu Dhabi’s ...

Edelman PR created a "green" image for Abu Dhabi and its leaders over 16 years. Now the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company is managing this year's COP28 climate conference. Coincidence? ... Um.
www.desmog.com/2023/09/13/e...

I cannot be more proud of Maria Espinoza for the successful defense of her fantastic dissertation on responding to public health epidemics in the context of climate change. CONGRATULATIONS!

I’m dazzled by your presence, does that count

After nearly a decade of study, three years of intensive research, 1000+ citations, & 90K words, I now have a full MS of my book, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-fuel Propaganda and How to Fight it*.

I will now be taking a well-earned vacation.

Europe's Biggest Oil Company Quietly Shelves a Radical Plan to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint A faltering offsets program points to new problems with the corporate world’s favorite “climate solution.”

Shell is shelving big plans for carbon offsets after realizing they don't really work www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

My department at Rutgers is hiring. Happy to answer questions about the role.
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/209...