Partnerships for Indigenous Climate Journalism

尽管土著社区是受气候变化影响最严重的群体之一，但关于这些社区如何利用技术和工程来解决问题的全国性新闻报道通常是从非土著的角度进行的。这是PBS新闻一小时与Indij Public Media （ICT的母公司，前身为Indian Country Today）的独特合作，透过共同制作数位与广播片段，将原住民社群的观点与报导放在最重要的位置。这项工作将出现在“新闻一小时”的夜间广播中，以及ICT和“新闻一小时”的网站和社交媒体空间中。该项目还将在一个由土著领导的新闻编辑室中创建美国第一个土著气候报道台。它将使土著记者能够挑战关于气候变化及其对土著社区影响的现有叙述，用扎根于生活经验、更加丰富和反映多种观点的叙述取代对损失的叙述。由Knology领导的合作研究将检验不同公众（土著和非土著）对(1)气候问题（对不同地方和人民的不同影响），(2)气候问题解决者（为解决气候问题提供专业知识的不同民族）以及(3)气候解决方案（预防、减轻或扭转这些影响的不同干预措施）的了解。该项目的主要目标之一是打破负面的社会刻板印象，这种刻板印象会阻碍气候变化等重要问题的进展。通过揭示文化主导和土著对气候科学的理解，气候报告可以使公众看到更广泛的工程和技术解决方案。该团队将应用“道德动机”的社会科学框架（Janoff-Bulman & Carnes, 2018），它指的是人类保护和培育他人的基本需求。该团队将利用这一框架，通过三个阶段系统地研究和试验不同的方式来构建气候新闻：第一阶段侧重于分析现有的新闻报道，以揭示当代新闻如何报道气候工程。第二阶段将揭示土著和非土著公众在三个主题上共享的刻板知识：气候问题、问题解决者以及从这些框架中产生的解决方案。第三阶段将部署实验性干预措施，以测试不同报道策略的有效性，帮助公众观众超越刻板印象，扩大他们的STEM词汇量和对气候赋权途径的理解。研究过程是完全参与式的，记者在所有阶段参与研究的设计和实施，并通过一系列定期的重点会议在所有团队之间进行交叉授粉。本研究支持广泛的公众参与STEM项目，由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划支持以下项目：(a)促进研究和实践，考虑非正式STEM学习在STEM公平和归属方面的作用；(b)促进个人和教育在STEM方面的成功；(c)促进公众参与科学发现；(d)培养对STEM职业的兴趣；(e)为有效的非正式STEM学习创造和加强理论和经验基础；(f)改善社区活力；及/或(g)加强科学传播和公众对STEM和STEM过程的参与和理解。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Although Indigenous communities are among the hardest hit by the effects of climate change, national news coverage of how these communities are using technology and engineering to tackle the problem is usually done from non-Indigenous perspective. In a unique collaboration between PBS NewsHour and Indij Public Media (the parent company of ICT, formerly known as Indian Country Today), this project will put the perspectives and the reporting of Indigenous communities front and center through their co-creation of digital and broadcast segments. This work will appear on the NewsHour's nightly broadcast and in the websites and social media spaces of both ICT and the NewsHour. This project also will create the first Indigenous climate reporting desk in the US within an Indigenous-led newsroom. It will allow Indigenous journalists to challenge existing narratives about climate change and its impact on Indigenous communities, replacing a narrative of loss with one that is rooted in lived experience and much richer and reflective of multiple perspectives. The collaborative research led by Knology will examine what different publics (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) know about (1) climate problems (the differential effects on different places and peoples), (2) climate problem-solvers (the different peoples who offer their expertise on solving climate problems), and (3) climate solutions (different interventions for preventing, mitigating, or reversing those effects).One of the project's key goals is to interrupt negative social stereotypes which can hinder progress on important issues such as climate change. By uncovering the culturally dominant as well as Indigenous understandings of climate science, climate reporting can be crafted to open publics' eyes to a greater range of engineering and technology solutions. The team will apply the social scientific framework of "moral motives" (Janoff-Bulman & Carnes, 2018), which refers to the basic human need to protect and nurture others. The team will use this framework to systematically study and experiment with different ways of framing climate journalism through three phases: Phase 1 focuses on analyzing existing news reports to reveal how climate engineering is covered by contemporary journalism. Phase 2 will reveal the stereotyped knowledge shared within both Indigenous and non-Indigenous publics on three topics: climate problems, problem-solvers, and the solutions that flow from these framings. Phase 3 will deploy experimental interventions to test the effectiveness of different reporting strategies for helping public audiences see beyond their stereotypes, and to expand their STEM vocabularies and understandings of paths to climate empowerment. The research process is fully participatory, with journalists involved in research design and implementation at all stages, and cross-pollination among all teams through a regular series of focused meetings.This Research in Support of Wide-reaching Public Engagement with STEM project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which supports projects that: (a) contribute to research and practice that considers informal STEM learning's role in equity and belonging in STEM; (b) promote personal and educational success in STEM; (c) advance public engagement in scientific discovery; (d) foster interest in STEM careers; (e) create and enhance the theoretical and empirical foundations for effective informal STEM learning; (f) improve community vibrancy; and/or (g) enhance science communication and the public's engagement in and understanding of STEM and STEM processes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.