Partnerships for Indigenous Climate Journalism

虽然土著社区是受气候变化影响最严重的社区之一，但关于这些社区如何利用技术和工程解决这一问题的全国性新闻报道通常是从非土著的角度进行的。在PBS NewsHour和Indij Public Media(信息和通信技术的母公司，前身为今日印度国家)之间的独特合作中，该项目将通过共同创建数字和广播部分，将土著社区的观点和报道放在首要位置。这项工作将出现在《新闻之声》的晚间广播以及信通技术和《新闻之声》的网站和社交媒体空间。该项目还将在土著领导的新闻编辑部内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的影响的现有叙述，用植根于生活经验的、更加丰富和反映多种视角的叙述取代关于损失的叙述。这项由Knology领导的合作研究将考察不同的公众(土著和非土著)对(1)气候问题(对不同地区和人民的不同影响)、(2)气候问题的解决者(提供解决气候问题的专业知识的不同民族)以及(3)气候解决方案(防止、缓解或扭转这些影响的不同干预措施)的了解。该项目的关键目标之一是打破负面的社会刻板印象，这些刻板印象可能会阻碍气候变化等重要问题的进展。通过揭示气候科学在文化上的主导地位以及土著对气候科学的理解，气候报告可以让公众睁开眼睛，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&Amp；Carnes，2018)，该框架指的是人类保护和培育他人的基本需要。该团队将利用这一框架，通过三个阶段系统地研究和试验构建气候新闻的不同方式：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陈规定型知识：气候问题、问题解决者以及从这些框架中得出的解决方案。第三阶段将部署试验性干预措施，以测试不同报道战略的有效性，以帮助公众超越他们的刻板印象，并扩大他们的STEM词汇和对气候赋权途径的理解。研究过程是完全参与的，记者参与所有阶段的研究设计和实施，并通过定期的一系列重点会议在所有团队之间交叉授粉。这项支持广泛公众参与STEM项目的研究由推进非正式STEM学习方案(AISL)资助，该方案支持以下项目：(A)促进研究和实践，认为非正式STEM学习在STEM公平和归属感方面的作用；(B)促进STEM个人和教育成功；(C)促进公众参与科学发现；(D)培养对STEM职业的兴趣；(E)创建和加强有效的非正式STEM学习的理论和经验基础；(F)增强社区活力；和/或(G)加强科学交流以及公众对STEM和STEM过程的参与和了解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，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.