Dr. David Berube

Over the course of the next few months the CRDM blog will periodically feature a Q + A with one of our outstanding faculty members. We take classes with them and work with them on scholarly projects, but now we’d like to learn more about what else they’re doing. We’ve talked with David Rieder, Jessica Jameson, Chris Anson, Matt May, Susan Katz, Maria Pramaggiore, Susan Miller-Cochran, Robert Schrag, Carolyn R. Miller, Brad Mehlenbacher, R. Michael Young, Jason Swarts, Adriana de Souza e Silva, Elizabeth Craig, Andrew Binder, and Victoria Gallagher, and we recently caught up with Dr. David Berube of the Communication Department:

What are you reading?

Distracted by Maggie Jackson and The Atlas of Climate Change by Dow and Downing. Reading as much as I can about EPPM (Extended Parallel Process Model) and digital attenuation of risk messages.

What classes are you teaching?

Undergrad class on Arguments and Natural Hazards and a graduate class in persuasion called Communication and Social Change.

What are you writing about?

Fear and Digital Amplification of Risk (two different projects).

What are you listening to?

Episodes of the Daily Show while at the gym and an eclectic mix of alternative music.

What are you watching?

Midsomer (yep, that is how it is spelled) Murders and Fringe. Any YouTube video that has anything to do with heuristics. 

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