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Josh Greenberg

Professor and Associate Dean, Research and Graduate

Expertise:Activism and Social Movements, Crisis/Risk Communication, Health Communication, Public Relations and Advertising, Sound Studies, Vinyl Music
Email:Joshua.Greenberg@carleton.ca
Building:Richcraft Hall
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Biography

Josh Greenberg, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication and Media Studies. He is also currently serving as Associate Dean (Research & Graduate) in the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs.

Professor Greenberg’s expertise is in the broad area of health risk communication, with a focus on media representations of outbreaks and other infectious disease risks; public risk perceptions of vaccination; and the risk communication strategies and media activities of public health officials and organizations. Dr. Greenberg recently began new research on Canada鈥檚 vinyl music scenes, which focuses on vinyl collectors, vinyl pressing companies, record stores and cultural events dedicated to promoting enthusiasm for and the exchange of vinyl music.

Professor Greenberg sits on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Communication and Journal of Professional Communication. He has provided research services and strategic advice to The World Health Organization; U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; Health Canada/The Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Professor Greenberg is a regular media commentator in his areas of expertise. In 2020 he was awarded the Faculty of Public Affairs 鈥淧ublic Commentary Excellence Award鈥� in recognition of his contributions to policy development and public discourse in Canada.

Professor Greenberg was Director of the School of Journalism and Communication from 2014-23.

Recent Publications

  • J. Greenberg, 2023. “Sensing Vinyl: Ritual, Memory, Materiality.” Popular Music and Society, 46(5): 485-99.
  • C. Elliott and J. Greenberg, 2022. (eds). . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • G. Capurro and J. Greenberg. 2020. 鈥淪tories of Risk: Media Narratives of Known, Emergent and Novel Health Threats.鈥� M. Deflem and D. Silva, eds. Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship. Emerald Publishing.
  • J. Greenberg, G. Capurro, E. Dub茅 and M. Driedger. 2019. 鈥淢easles, Mickey and the Media: Media Coverage of the 2015 Disneyland Outbreak.鈥� Canadian Journal of Communication, 44(2): 175-89.
  • G. Capurro,聽J. Greenberg, E. Dub茅 and M. Driedger. 2018. 鈥淢easles, Moral Regulation and the Social Construction of Risk: Media Narratives of 鈥楢nti-Vaxxers鈥� and the 2015 Disneyland Outbreak.鈥澛�Canadian Journal of Sociology, 43(1): 25-47.
  • J. Greenberg, E. Dub茅 and M. Driedger. 2017. 鈥淰accine Hesitancy: In Search of the Risk Communication Comfort Zone.鈥澛�PLoS Currents, March 3. DOI: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.0561a011117a1d1f9596e8690b.
  • J. Greenberg. 2017. Book Review of Charles L. Briggs and Daniel C. Hallin, Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine and Contemporary Life (London: Routledge, 2016).聽Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 25 May.聽
  • J. Greenberg聽and T. Joseph Scanlon. 2016. 鈥淥ld Media, New Media, and the Complex Story of Disasters.鈥澛�Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.21
  • J. Greenberg. 2016. 鈥淐elebrity Science: A Response to Declan Fahy and Timothy Caulfield.鈥澛�Issues in Science and Technology, 33(1) [Link聽].
  • C. Elliott and聽J. Greenberg. 2016. 鈥淐ommunication, Crisis, and Contaminated Meat: A Tale of Two Food Scares.鈥澛�How Canadians Communicate 杏吧原创 Food. Calgary, AB: Athabasca University Press.

Other Publications

  • J. Greenberg. 2024. “The Triumph of Vinyl: Vintage is Back as LP Sales Continue to Skyrocket.” The Conversation, April 11 [Link ].
  • J. Greenberg聽and J. Rainford. 2018. 鈥淗ard Work Ahead on New emergency Alert System.鈥澛�Policy Options, May 2 [Link聽].
  • J. Rainford and聽J. Greenberg. 2018. 鈥淎 Teachable Moment in the Hawaii False Alarm.鈥澛�Policy Options, January 23 [Link聽].
  • J. Smith and聽J. Greenberg. 2017. Preparing Airports for Communicable Diseases on Arriving Flights. Report for Transportation Safety Board (Airport Cooperative Research Program).聽National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. [Link聽
  • J. Greenberg聽and J. Rainford. 2016. Hurricane Matthew and the Problem of Communicating Fear.鈥澛�Policy Options, October 12 [Link聽].
  • J. Greenberg. 2016. 鈥淶ika Virus: Communicating an Evolving Health Risk.鈥澛�Policy Options, February 16 [Link聽].
  • J. Greenberg聽and J. Rainford. 2016. 鈥淯ncertainty Management: Communicating the Zika Risk.鈥澛�Policy Options, January 28 [Link聽].

Graduate Student Supervision

Professor Greenberg has supervised numerous graduate students and postdocs with wide-ranging interests: risk and crisis communication, health communication, science communication, media and social movements, surveillance, and media representations of public policy issues. He is a recipient of a 杏吧原创 University Graduate Mentoring Award in recognition of excellence in graduate supervision.