Matthew Nisbet

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Matthew Nisbet is Associate Professor of Communication and Co-director of the Center for Social Media at American University. He has published over 60 studies, book chapters, and monographs examining the communication dynamics of policymaking and public affairs, focusing on debates over science, the environment, and public health. Nisbet has been a Health Policy Investigator at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a Google Science Communciation Fellow, and a visiting Shorenstein Fellow in Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. You can read more about Nisbet’s research on science and environmental communication at The Climate Shift Project web site.  Also check out his Public Square blog at TheBreakthrough.org, his columns at the environmental science web magazine Ensia, and his Age of Engagement blog hosted by Big Think.