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Sylvia Hayes

@sylviahayes.bsky.social

Research Fellow in Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science πŸ“University of Exeter πŸ”ŽClimate communication, visual imagery, media 🌐https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35888-sylvia-hayes βœ‰οΈs.hayes3@exeter.ac.uk

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Friends at #ICA25! Looking forward to my presentation later today at 3pm on my paper "Transformative Journalism, Quiet Advocacy, and the Seductive Power of Imagery in Digital Climate Niche Journalism" from my PhD research!
Hope to see you there, but if not, reach out for a coffee!
#ICA

13.06.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a really collaborative piece of work with co-author @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social from Carbon Brief and Catherine Butler at @universityofexeter.bsky.social
@c3ds.bsky.social

13.03.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ‰ New paper! This work has lived as a cool interactive @carbonbrief.org piece here: interactive.carbonbrief.org/how-uk-newsp... since 2021, but is now *finally* also a published academic journal article in Public Understanding of Science: doi.org/10.1177/0963...

13.03.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Check out @jonathan-growcott.bsky.social's new paper!

It's always exciting to see what others in my PhD cohort are up to - ours is an interdisciplinary program so there's such a range of research going on.

I'm no expert on ecology, but these Loud Leopards seem pretty coolπŸ†πŸ“’

16.01.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our updated editorials analysis for 2024...

🚨 Record levels of opposition to climate action in 2024 UK editorials

🚨 This is the third year in a row that opposition levels have increased

Always a pleasure to work with the amazing @carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social on this analysis!

10.01.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Excited to learn that our poster was chosen as runner up for the poster prize πŸ₯³ Thanks to everyone who voted on our two provocations and to the #AI4NZ conference organisers!
#PosterDesign #SciComm

20.12.2024 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@drkowert.bsky.social

17.12.2024 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’š This has been such a fun project to be a part of, massive thanks to editor Rachel Kowert for involving me and for all the cool work she does around making academic work on pop culture and digital platforms accessible, open, and fun!

17.12.2024 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🧣 My chapter focuses on the visual communication of Taylor Swift through colours in her lyricism and branding of albums/eras

πŸ”΄ I look at how colour and visuals create a "fanilect" - shared visual language among fans

17.12.2024 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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OUT NOW: our book The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Taylor Swift πŸŽ‰

πŸ“˜ Free PDF and option to purchase paperback both here: works.hcommons.org/records/1wcf...

17.12.2024 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“· "There are without doubt vital and profound reasons to criticise AI-generated images. I'm just not sure that the fact they don't look sufficiently like volumetrically-organised photographs or film is one of them"

@profgillian.bsky.social

17.12.2024 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

✏️"To be blunt, both photography and coordinate-based mapping were technologies deployed extensively by European states to expropriate common land, to colonise territories and to categorise people."

@profgillian.bsky.social

17.12.2024 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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on criticising AI-generated images for not looking photographic I’ve just read Roland Meyer’s admirably clear critique in the journal Rrrreflect of the imagery generated by OpenAI’s Sora (Roland has developed an extensive critique of Midjourne…

This is absolutely fascinating from the brilliant @profgillian.bsky.social and couldn't come at a better time as myself and @veronicaawhite.bsky.social are having many conversations with AI experts on Gen-AI imagery in a climate/journalism context

visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/o...

17.12.2024 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0


πŸ–ΌοΈ Our poster will be up all day today and the rest of the week in the Forum at @universityofexeter.bsky.social - please pop by and put a sticker on to share your views!

17.12.2024 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🎀 Great to present our paper "How does Gen-AI see Climate Change?" at the first ever AI for Net Zero Conference on behalf of the great author team!

πŸ’‘ We were excited to bring some social science to the discussion & have already had great conversations

@veronicaawhite.bsky.social
@c3ds.bsky.social

17.12.2024 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Our interactive poster is up in the Forum at the first ever AI for Net Zero conference, hosted at @exeter.ac.uk. Come share your views on AI-generated climate imagery!
#AI4NZ @sylviahayes.bsky.social

16.12.2024 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please can I be added? I'm a researcher of climate communication!

11.12.2024 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was part of a wider ethnographic study of climate visuals in the news...

... please get in touch and stay tuned for future papers from this work, coming soon! πŸ‘‹
@c3ds.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

11.12.2024 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We found that images from COP26 were mostly:

πŸ‘” "talking heads" politicians
✊ images of protest

🧡 We trace the journey of a news visual from camera to (web)page
πŸ”Ž There are many (hidden) sites of power in this journey
πŸ“· This can result in marginalised perspectives, people or movements

11.12.2024 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Visual Politics, Protest, and Power: Who Shaped the Climate Visual Discourse at COP26? Despite the importance of visual imagery for how people conceptualise issues in the news media, most research on journalism and communication prioritises textual media. This research examines the v...

πŸŽ‰My new paper with Saffron O'Neill just published:

Visual Politics, Protest, and Power: Who Shaped the Climate Visual Discourse at COP26?
tinyurl.com/bdzm9j4z

Summary report: shorturl.at/JT4xS

We analysed images of COP & spoke to journalists/photographers/editors present

11.12.2024 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi! I'm Sylvia, researcher at University of Exeter (UK) focusing on visual climate change communication πŸ“·πŸŒ

My expertise is in photography, journalism, pub engagement w/ climate change, and visual comms

If you want to say hi or work with me please get in touch! πŸ‘‹

S.hayes3@exeter.ac.uk

10.12.2024 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

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