Francisco Gonzalez

Climate Change Representation in Entertainment Media: How Climate Change is Depicted in Popular Culture Productions

Completion: 01 SEP 2027

Background

My background is in discourse studies, with research on social media and political memes. I am particularly interested in sociocognitive approaches to communication, focusing on how language and media shape the way people think and interact.

PhD

Climate Change Representation in Entertainment Media: How Climate Change is Depicted in Popular Culture Productions

Key research areas: Multimodal Discourse, Climate Communication, Media Studies, NLP, Computer Vision, Popular culture. I study how climate change is represented in entertainment media using AI tools to analyze large amounts of content.

In Simple Terms...

I use artificial intelligence tools that can "read" text and "look at" images. These tools help us analyze large amounts of content—for example, scripts, subtitles, and visuals from films—so we can process and understand the stories and messages about climate change that audiences are exposed to.

Supervisors

Lead Supervisor
Prof. Chico Camargo

Computer Science · Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
Co-Supervisor
Prof. Saffron O'Neill

Geography · Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
Co-Supervisor
Prof. Travis Coan

Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology · Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

External Partners

Children's Investment Fund Foundation: CIFF

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