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Biochar in the UK Print News Media: Issue Frames and Their Implications for Opening up Debate About Land-based Greenhouse Gas Removal (2024)
Journal Article

Biochar is a land-based greenhouse gas removal technology with potential to address the climate crisis. This article examines societal debate and discussion around biochar as represented in the UK print news media and reflects on its implications for... Read More about Biochar in the UK Print News Media: Issue Frames and Their Implications for Opening up Debate About Land-based Greenhouse Gas Removal.

Biochar in the British print news media: an analysis of promissory discourse and the creation of expectations about carbon removal (2023)
Journal Article

Biochar is amongst a growing suite of approaches developed to address the climate crisis by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; yet public awareness of biochar is low. In this situation, mass-media reporting plays an important role in making... Read More about Biochar in the British print news media: an analysis of promissory discourse and the creation of expectations about carbon removal.

Multispecies, More-Than-Human, Nonhuman, Other-Than-Human: Reimagining idioms of animacy in an age of planetary unmaking (2023)
Journal Article

Life on Earth is sustained by interconnected more-than-human entanglements. In the era of the Anthropocene, many of these webs are unravelling due to climate change, biodiversity loss, toxicity and pollution, natural resource extraction, and water an... Read More about Multispecies, More-Than-Human, Nonhuman, Other-Than-Human: Reimagining idioms of animacy in an age of planetary unmaking.

Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’ (2022)
Journal Article

This article investigates Greenpeace’s use of science in ‘environmental representation’ in news articles concerning genetically modified food, and how commenters respond in the associated below the line comments. This article provides an answer throu... Read More about Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’.

The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution (2022)
Journal Article

Prevalent narratives of agricultural innovation predict that we are once again on the cusp of a global agricultural revolution. According to these narratives, this so-called fourth agricultural revolution, or agriculture 4.0, is set to transform curr... Read More about The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution.

The Online Genetically Modified Food Debate: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Genetically Modified Animals (2021)
Journal Article

The aim of this article is to investigate the sociotechnical imaginaries present in UK online news articles and below the line comments in connection with genetically modified animals. This article attempts to provide an answer through a qualitative... Read More about The Online Genetically Modified Food Debate: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Genetically Modified Animals.