How we talk about climate change matters. This piece explores how shifting from crisis-driven narratives to solutions-focused, locally grounded, and lifestyle-aware climate communication can move audiences from eco-anxiety to action. With practical insights, it offers journalists and communicators tools to engage the public more effectively and empower them to respond.

MediaWell is inviting scholars and educators to explore our Zotero library—a curated collection of 5,500+ cross-disciplinary texts on digital information ecosystems. This open call encourages you to design and share course syllabi using our resources! Interested? Email us by July 14, 2025.

How is digital power distributed, and who gets to shape the future? This book roundup highlights recent books tackling key topics like influence, governance, AI ethics, trust, and activism. With expert perspectives from scholars and industry insiders, these books unpack the narratives shaping our present and future, along with a preview of 2025’s must-read titles.

This literature review summarizes key response strategies from the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT) project, which offers a research-backed framework to foster trust and productive dialogue. Navigating contentious online conversations can be challenging, but the ARTT catalog offers a collaborative database of evidence-based insights on healthy digital communication. This review will help answer the question, “what do I say, and how do I say it” for anyone who communicates online.

As counter-disinformation strategies face mounting challenges—shrinking budgets, shifting alliances between tech and governments, and the limits of top-down techno-legal solutions—civil society in the Global Majority offers innovative alternatives. In this article, Ong and Jackson describe an alternative agenda that prioritizes community resilience, challenges the structures fueling disinformation, and provides actionable insights for Global North partners to better support the creativity and autonomy of Global Majority civil society organizations.