In Graham Smart’s text, “Discourse Coalitions, Science Blogs, and the Global Debate Over Climate Change”, he struggles to decode a debated topic revolving around climate change. The way he unravels this debate through the way he views the three main discourse coalitions on the topic of climate change: Skeptics, Advocates, and Eco-Optimists. If you did not already know, Skeptics can be defined as “a person inclined to question or doubt all accepted opinions”; Advocate can be defined as “a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy”; and Eco-Optimists can be defined as “someone who seeks to show how we can come out the other side of our current ecologic and economic crises in a better place than we started”. Smart looks at the differences in not only how they communicate their ideas/ findings with the outside world, but also on how the different information is used by the other groups. He relates this style of communication to that of blog posts, as seen here, where people can comment and share other information on that same topic and almost debate with one another. Ultimately, he states that the fact that the presentation of this info is presented in a way to almost focus on the debate and not the presentation of data, outside audiences find it hard to find conclusions on topics such as climate change.
A connection that I made from Smart’s writing to this class, especially connecting to my final project is reflecting on how group members, organization members, and members of the breast cancer world Perceive/ interpret information, communicate that information with one another, and then present it to the outside world. This is important to me because my group and I need to understand this communication link to create a successful blog and web page for Gloria Gemma’s audience, especially millennials.
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