I research climate change communication, climate journalism and extreme weather, as well as how climate change is talked about on social media and how climate change impacts are depicted by generative AI chatbots. 🌎

I have covered a lot of ground in my time as a climate media scholar. Below is a selection of my work. For a full listing of my scholarly work, please visit my Google Scholar profile. I’m happy to share any publications that are behind a paywall via email. Please reach out to me via the contact form on this site or through my university email.

Climate Journalism and Extreme Weather

Hopke, J. E & Wozniak, A. (2025). Climate solutions and climate attribution in extreme heat press coverage: The July 2022 UK heatwaves. Environmental Communication, 19(7), 1201 - 1216. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2025.2458219

Hopke, J. E. (2025). Climate change reporting and green energy misdirection: U.S. media coverage of the 2021 Texas blackouts during Winter Storm Uri. Weather, Climate, and Society, 17(2), 217-227. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-24-0080.1

Generative AI and Climate Misinformation

Hopke, J. E. (2025). Visualizing climate change in an era of A.I. slop: How chatbot image generator models distort the climate crisis in public imagination(s). Emerging Media, 3(4), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543251398769

Hopke, J. E. (2025). Researching climate communication in an era of hyper-partisan split screening of reality. Dialogues on Climate Change. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768659251399934

Digital Media and Climate Activism

Hopke, J. E. & Hestres, L. E. (2018). Visualizing the Paris climate talks on Twitter: Media and climate stakeholder visual social media during COP21. Social Media + Society, 3(4), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118782687

Hopke, J. E. (2024). Tweeting on a rapidly warming planet: Environmental communication social media research. In A. Carvalho & T. R. Peterson (Eds.), Environmental Communication (pp. 171–190). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789553-009