Journal Foundation grants awarded to 2 J-School Faculty to study science communication and political consumerism

Professor Dominique Brossard was recently awarded a one year grant from the Journal Foundation. In collaboration with students Tsun-Jen Shih, Michael Dahlstrom and Andrew Binder, Brossard will use the grant to set a complex experiment aiming at exploring how media effects and scientific versus partisan opinion might impact public attitudes toward global warming. For more information, see MSRG.

Professor Dhavan Shah, along with co-investigators Professors Douglas McLeod and Lewis Friedland, were awarded a three-year grant from the Journal Foundation to support their ongoing research on socially conscious consumption and civic engagement. The grant will provide funds to support data collections and analysis around the question of whether various forms of communitarian consumption and political consumerism are actually rising, and how these changes are related to individuals’ communication practices as well as their patterns of civic and political participation. For more information, see the CCCP website.