Climate Crisis Literacy Through Media
- Post On04/08/2024
- ByShankar Paudel
It has been an immense joy to work on this article about climate crisis literacy in collaboration with two brilliant scholars, my friends Raju Baral and Purna Chandra Bhusal. It was a great experience working collaboratively.
This article investigates the role of Nepali mass media, including radio, television programs, news reports, and editorials, in disseminating information and fostering awareness about climate change and its consequences. The analysis, from the perspective of positive discourse analysis (PDA), reveals that Nepali mass media is using informative language to convey messages about the climate crisis. It also shows that Nepali media is actively working for climate action, urgently calling on individuals and societies to take preventive measures against potential environmental threats. Simultaneously, it also conveys, amidst the challenges, a sense of hope for a better future. This optimism is grounded in the belief that coordination and collaboration for climate change adaptation function as catalysts for questioning established societal norms and nurturing public consciousness.
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311983.2024.2316416
Shankar Paudel
यत् भावो – तत् भवति।
My name is Shankar. I am a PhD student in Rhetoric and Writing Studies (RWS) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). I am also an assistant director in the rhetoric and writing studies program. At UTEP, apart from being a doctoral student, I am working as an instructor of technical writing (RWS-3359) and first-year composition (RWS 1301). I worked as an assistant director at the University Writing Center for three semesters (2022 Spring, 2023 Fall, and 2024 Spring). Prior to that, I was a graduate consultant at the University Writing Center (UWC) for a year and coordinated the Workshop Committee during that time. In the summer of 2022, I worked with the School of Nursing at UTEP as a PhD Research Associate. My research and teaching interests are more related to Indigenous environmental justice, environmental humanities, environmental historiography, rhetoric and composition, digital humanities, multimodal composition, and technical communication. My dissertation is focused on Indigenous Environmental Justice in the field of technical communication. I am the president of two student organizations at UTEP, Frontera Retorica (a student chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America at UTEP) and Nepali Students Association at UTEP (NSA-UTEP). Internationally, I am associated with the South Asian Foundation for Academic Research (SAFAR—https://www.safarsouthasia.org/2022/02/08/shankarpaudel/) as an academic Counsellor and the Center for Advanced Studies in South Asia (CASSA) as a digital consultant and also involved in various projects.