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来解决问题的全国新闻报道通常是从非土著的角度进行的。在PBS NewsHour和Indij Public Media（ICT的母公司，前身为Indian Country Today）之间的独特合作中，该项目将通过共同创建数字和广播片段，将土著社区的观点和报道置于前沿和中心。这项工作将出现在《新闻一小时》的晚间广播以及信通技术和《新闻一小时》的网站和社交媒体空间。该项目还将在美国土著领导的新闻编辑室内创建第一个土著气候报告台。它将使土著记者能够挑战现有的关于气候变化及其对土著社区影响的叙述，用一种植根于生活经验、更丰富和反映多种观点的叙述取代损失叙述。Knology领导的合作研究将研究不同的公众（原住民和非原住民）了解（1）气候问题（对不同地区和人群的不同影响），（2）气候问题解决者（提供解决气候问题的专业知识的不同民族），以及（3）气候解决方案该项目的主要目标之一是打破消极的社会陈规定型观念，这些观念可能阻碍在气候变化等重要问题上取得进展。通过揭示文化主导以及土著对气候科学的理解，气候报告可以让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”（Janoff-Bulman Carnes，2018）的社会科学框架，该框架指的是人类保护和培养他人的基本需求。该团队将利用这一框架，通过三个阶段系统地研究和试验气候新闻的不同框架：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，以测试不同报告策略的有效性，以帮助公众受众超越他们的刻板印象，并扩大他们的STEM词汇和对气候赋权路径的理解。研究过程是完全参与式的，记者参与研究设计和实施的所有阶段，并通过一系列定期的重点会议在所有团队之间交叉授粉。这个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中的公平和归属感方面的作用;（B）促进STEM中的个人和教育成功;（c）推动公众参与科学发现;（d）培养对STEM职业的兴趣;（e）为有效的非正式STEM学习创建和加强理论和经验基础;（f）提高社区活力;和/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NSF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.