Graham Smart and Matthew Falconer recently published an open-access chapter called “Genre, uptake, and the recontextualization of climate change science by ‘denialist’ cultural communities“.
In the chapter, Smart and Falconer look at the ways that three denialist cultural communities – the Cornwall Alliance, the Heartland Institute, and the Tea Party – take-up and transform the official science presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They identify the digital genre sets and rhetorical strategies employed by these communities to intentionally misrepresent, transmute, and/or refute the official science to prevent it from challenging the communities’ ideologies.
The chapter is part of Sune Auken and Christel Sunesen’s edited volume, Genre and the climate debate (De Gruyter, 2021).