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Faculty study social media coverage of typhoon disaster

Bruno Takahashi

Bruno Takahashi


Knight Center Research Director Bruno Takahashi is examining how journalists used social media to cover last November’s typhoon in the Philippines.
The study is called “Social media uses in the face of disasters: An exploration of journalistic practices among media and communities impacted by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.”
He is collaborating with Edson Tandoc, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, who is now in Tacloban City conducting interviews for the project.
The researchers are also working on a content analysis of tweets about the disaster.
Their work is supported by a recent grant from the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Knight Center research director honored

research-mattersThe MSU College of Communication Arts & Sciences is showcasing Knight Center research director Bruno Takahashi as one of eight faculty members honored for their research and creative activities.
Takahashi, an assistant professor of journalism and communication, is an authority on international news coverage of environmental issues, especially climate change.
Takahashi’s overall research agenda focuses on environmental discourses from an international and intercultural perspective. Within this broad area, he is particularly interested in media representation across nations and its relationships with policy-making.
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Research director presents environmental study of Hispanic media

Bruno Takahashi

Bruno Takahashi


Knight Center Research Director Bruno Takahashi recently presented environmental journalism research at the Hispanic Communication Conference organized by Florida International University.
The November conference gathered some of the most important academics and professionals working in communication and media issues that concern Hispanic audiences in the U.S.
Takahashi’s presentation, Challenges and Opportunities for Hispanic Media in Reporting Environmental Issues, included a general overview of the state of environmental journalism in the U.S. and recent research on the state of environmental reporting in Spanish language media.
Some of the results, based on in-depth interviews with journalists and news decision-makers, show important organizational, cultural, and journalistic limitations of Hispanic media – factors that constrain the salience of environmental issues.
Some of this work is in collaboration with MSU journalism professor Manuel Chavez and two colleagues at Florida International University, Juliet Pinto and Mercedes Vigon.
The researchers plan additional studies on the content of environmental news in Spanish language media and on Hispanic audience’s perceptions of environmental issues.

MSU environmental journalism researcher recognized

Carol Terracina Harmann

Carol Terracina Hartman


The University of Wisconsin’s Office of Research & Sponsored Programs has recognized Knight Center doctoral student Carol Terracina Hartman for scholarship and creative accomplishments.
Carol is on the Department of Communication faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she serves as campus media advisor for the independent student newspaper The Royal Purple.
The recognition is based on her research papers and journal articles on environmental issues such as climate change and the use of social media for environmental action, as well as photographs she took for Great Lakes Echo and her freelance writing.