Resume

• 2009

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Work in arts and entertainment has been heralded as the future of employment and economic growth in many postindustrial regions. People increasingly are encouraged to become entrepreneurs

  particularly women who try turning their artistic hobbies into livelihoods. My research examines entrepreneurial crafters to understand the effects of their practices on individual livelihoods and local economies. I consider the production of monetary and alternative types of value and how these values circulate

  hidden and new uses of space for craft work

  and multiple ways in which workers are governed.

  Geography

  The Ohio State University

• 2007

  Master's degree

  As a master’s student at the Ohio State University my research focus was on representations of environmental issues

  particularly how journalists localized global climate change through stories in regional newspapers. A paper based on this work will be published in Aether: The Journal of Media Geography.

  Geography

  Ohio State University

• 2004

  English

  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

  My undergraduate work was focused on gender. I was awarded the Geographical Perspectives on Women subgroup of the American Association of Geographers 2006 undergraduate Glenda Law Student Paper Award for “A Space of Her Own: The Notion of Home in Chopin’s The Awakening” and the Wisconsin Geographical Society’s Best Undergraduate Student Paper award for my work on gender and perception of fear in public urban spaces in Chicago.

  Geography and English

  University of Wisconsin-Platteville

• Economic Geography

  online teaching

  governmentality

  Urban Geography

  distance education

  Geographies of arts production

  Cultural Geography

  College Teaching

  cultural economies

  Human Geography

  Geography

  Telling Stories of Climate Change Here: Print Journalists’ Practices for Localizing Climate Change

  Journalists writing about climate change for regional newspapers in the United States \nare often constrained by having to localize the story to the area of circulation for \ntheir publication. This analysis examines how climate change knowledge is localized \nthrough everyday practices and geographical imaginations of journalists working \nat metropolitan and regional newspapers in the U.S. Journalists’ representations of \nenvironmental conservation issues are often an important way in which the public and \npolicy makers experience issues

  create meanings

  and comprehend local environmental \ngovernance. Understanding how mass media discourses are materialized through \nparticular techniques of governance can reveal the situatedness of media knowledges. \nSpecifically

  I examined journalists’ micro-practices of localizing media discourses on \nclimate change to particular localities

  rather than relational contexts

  connections \nextending through space. Through interviewing journalists

  participating in journalism \ntraining sessions

  and using linguistic discourse analysis of newspaper articles

  I examine \nhow journalists communicate about climate change and how coverage has changed \novertime. I pay particular attention to how journalists conceptualize climate change \nand its impacts on different spatial scales. I conclude by considering how possibilities \nmay emerge for employing relational thinking when telling stories of climate change.

  Telling Stories of Climate Change Here: Print Journalists’ Practices for Localizing Climate Change

  Jessica R. Barnes is a lecturer in human geography at Northern Arizona University. Her Ph.D. research at Ohio State University was on how crafters' work fits into their lives and livelihoods. She has been awarded research support for this work from the Ohio State University Department of Women's

  Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Coca-Cola-Critical Difference for Women Research Grants on Women

  Gender and Gender Equity. She has been an instructor for World Regional Geography for 12 terms and developed the department's first online version of the course. She earned her M.A. in geography from Ohio State in 2009 for her work examining how print journalists localize climate change. She earned her B.A. in geography and English from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and minored in journalism. Jessica worked as a reporter and editor at the student newspaper and as a reporter at a regional daily. Her research interests include critical cultural economy

  independent work

  media representations

  and the social construction of knowledge. In 2006

  she won best undergraduate student paper awards from the Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group of the AAG and the Wisconsin Geographical Society.

  Jessica R.

  Barnes

  The Ohio State University

  Northern Arizona University

  Flagstaff

  Arizona

  Lecturer in Geography

  Northern Arizona University

  The Ohio State University