Environmental communication research

Recent Projects

"Merging Duke Energy and Progress Energy: Online Public Discourse, Post-Fukushima Reactions, and the Absence of Environmental Communication," with Ashley R. Kelly, forthcoming in the journal Environmental Communication.

In March 2012, Ashley and I presented a poster on our ongoing research into the Duke-Progress merger.The symposium featured nearly 200 of NC State's top graduate students and their research. Our poster won third prize in the Humanities and Design division. Click here to view our poster.

In April 2011, we kicked off our research on the merger by presenting initial results from our work at the second annual CRDM Research Symposium in April. Our research focuses on how the public discussed the merger online, including potentially controversial issues, such as the proposed construction of new nuclear reactors. We found concerns focuses primarily on economic issues during a brief period after the initial announcement in January 2011, but that the tragic events in Japan with Fukushiima-Daichi drastically changed the discourse of nuclear technology. A full discussion of our results will be published forthcoming.