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Good-natured comedy to enrich climate communication
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This article explored the use of good-natured comedy to diversify the modes of comedy that can be used in climate communication beyond satire to others modes that are possibly more supportiv...Abstract:
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An Inconvenient Joke? A Review of Humor in Climate Change Communication
Miriam Kaltenbacher,Stefan Drews +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used humor to communicate climate change and other environmental problems beyond the dominant approach of shock and fear using humor is one of the most popular ways to communicate environmental problems. But humor is not suitable for children.
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The cranky uncle game—combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation
John David Cook,Ullrich K. H. Ecker,Melanie I. Trecek-King,G. Schade,Karen Jeffers-Tracy,Jasper Fessmann,Sojung Claire Kim,Dave Kinkead,Margaret Terry Orr,Emily K. Vraga,Kurt Roberts,Jay McDowell +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a humorous serious game called "Cranky uncle" was developed in the U.S. to inoculate players against climate misinformation, which was used to improve students' climate literacy and critical-thinking abilities.
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Bright Club: Establishing a Science Comedy Variety Night in Ireland:
TL;DR: Bright Club Ireland as discussed by the authors is a public engagement initiative bringing together research communication and the performing arts since its inception in London in 2009, and it was established in Dublin in 2011 and Ireland in 2013.
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Between crisis and care: Projection mapping as creative climate advocacy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on two 2015 projection mapping events: one in Vatican City and the other in Paris, and focus on how they orient attention, transform locations into public spaces for political engagement and cultivate collective imaginaries.
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We Are (Not) the Virus: Competing Online Discourses of Human-Environment Interaction in the Era of COVID-19
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze social media discourses of climate justice and find that social media may be a particularly influential means of circulating ideologies about climate justice, but they do not find any evidence of a correlation between social media and climate change.
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Humour as emotion regulation: the differential consequences of negative versus positive humour.
TL;DR: The present research predicted that positive (good-natured) humour would be more effective at regulating negative emotions than negative (mean-spirited) humour, and showed that positive humour was more successful at down- Regulating negative and up-regulating positive emotion.
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"Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming" by Paul Hawken, 2016. [book review]
TL;DR: The book is a compilation of credible, science-based solutions intended to halt and, more importantly, re verse human caused greenhouse gas emissions, based on the number of gigatons of carbon dioxide they can reduce or remove in 30 years.
BRIEF REPORT Humour as emotion regulation: The differential consequences of negative versus positive humour
TL;DR: This article found that positive humour was more successful at regulating negative and up-regulating positive emotion than negative (mean-spirited) humour, while negative humour was ineffective at regulating positive emotion.
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Regulating worry, promoting hope: How do children, adolescents, and young adults cope with climate change?
TL;DR: Learning about global problems, such as climate change, is not only a cognitive endeavor, but also involves emotions evoked by the seriousness and complexity of these problems as mentioned in this paper. But few studies, however...