The microvideo platform TikTok has emerged as a popular hub for self-expression and social activism, particularly youth, but use of the platform’s affective affordances to spread awareness important issues not been adequately studied. Through an exploratory multimodal discourse analysis sample climate change-hashtagged videos, we examine how visibility, editability, association facilitate formation publics on TikTok. We describe TikTok’s features allow creators construct propagate...

While Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory has been widely applied to various populations, it seldom tested on college students. This study extends VBN examine what socio-psychological factors influence sustainability behaviors among university Undergraduate students are an interesting and novel population, as they still forming their values beliefs, therefore may be more open engage in efforts. assessed five behaviors: (a) support for political candidates who say will strengthen environmental...

Knowledge about science and technology has become increasingly important in this age of digital information overload. It is also becoming to understand what contributes scientific learning, including sources trust those sources. In study, we develop test a multivariate model explain knowledge based on past theories learning from the news fields political communication, sociology, media psychology. We focus impact sources—by platform, such as television online, by expertise, scientists...

This study explores the use of Facebook for collective coping in immediate aftermath Typhoon Haiyan, one strongest storms ever recorded on Earth, which hit Philippines November 2013. When traditional communication channels became non-operational, non-traditional information sources and platforms, such as Facebook, salient. Drawing from interviews with 29 individuals various groups—government officials, local journalists, residents—this found three strategies facilitated by Facebook. First,...

Studies about mass media framing have found divergent levels of influence on public opinion; moreover, the evidence suggests that issue attributes can contribute to this difference. In case climate change, studies focused exclusively developed countries, suggesting perceptions issue. This study presents one first coverage in a developing country. It examines newspapers’ reporting Peru during Fifth Latin America, Caribbean and European Union Summit May 2008. The focuses frames sources provide...

Place and community attachment, satisfaction, environmental attitudes have all been independently linked to behaviors. However, few efforts attempted determine the relationship between these factors, together, how they relate pro-environmental Moreover, studies analyzed concepts relationships in context of rural low amenity settings. This study integrates factors a conceptual framework examines them rural, communities. Based on analysis data from survey residents six small, communities...

Media coverage of climate change has been an area continued research during the last years, mostly with a focus on developed countries. This study attempts to contribute this body work by analyzing in developing country. The presents content analysis newspaper Peru through frames, geographical focus, and strategies (mitigation/adaptation). Additionally, role foreign voices is assessed comparing Peruvian reporters wire services, determining types sources present articles. Results show...

This study compares newspaper coverage of Beijing’s air pollution in China and the United States (2008–2013). There are two aims: (a) to systematically compare how such a local environmental crisis has been reported across countries, (b) explore news were produced under influences social systems flows between countries. Based on hierarchy influence theory, content analysis reveals that US media covered issue earlier, having more topics ‘politicizing’ pollution, using negative complaints as...

Environmental journalists have historically struggled between journalistic objectivity and environmental advocacy. But the roles they embrace are based not only on their individual conceptions but also perceptions of what organizations expect from them. Thus, role melding organizational conceptions. These do always correspond, especially for who must compete space attention with more sensational accessible political, crime or entertainment stories that in search profit might prioritize. This...

Relying on construal-level theory, we experimentally test how the level of concreteness and abstraction climate change imagery affects responses among a diverse sample U.S. adults ( N = 448). Results show that concrete visual messaging practices cannot directly lead to increased concern or behavioral intentions. Instead, they may backfire for conservatives, less-efficacious people, people who are low in proenvironmental values. Our findings contribute effective communication literature by...

This paper presents a narrative literature review that examines climate change communication research produced in Latin America Spanish and Portuguese from 2001 to 2022. We highlight the scholarly contributions of American scholars – main topical trends, theoretical contributions, methodological approaches. scholarship is mainly characterized by qualitative, interpretive, critical approach. It also more action-oriented less theory-driven compared Global North. Most studies focused on Brazil...

Social marketing has emerged in the last decades as a popular behavior change approach. Its application produced mixed results, but noticeable increase its environmental arena calls for an assessment of development. This study presents analysis such development both theory and practice. Results suggest that there is increasing trend social marketing, are also several conceptual theoretical problems attached to it. The findings need refocus research toward reduction consumptive behaviors.

Scholars of environmental communication acknowledge the importance visual representations in shaping perceptions and actions relation to affairs. Unlike with other media, including newspapers, television film, research on visualization nature issues magazines is rare. This study focuses covers Time magazine, one world's most influential news weeklies. A dataset that includes all relevant from 1923 2011 examined using a combination quantitative qualitative content analysis analyze...

This study focused on the phenomenology of covering a natural disaster by documenting lived experience 12 national and local journalists who covered Typhoon Haiyan when it hit Philippines in November 2013. Studies that disasters have identified their experiences as either trying to balance norms or victims dealing with trauma. Our analysis brings these together for more holistic description disaster, arguing one aspect cannot be understood without other. Through an interpretative...

This study proposes, from a cross-national perspective, model of environmental citizenship that includes predictors at the individual and contextual levels. The is based on multiple theoretical considerations sociology, media studies, economics. study, secondary data, reports level, use, concern, postmaterialism positively predict citizenship. However, data also allow to test whether effects these variables vary depending social contexts. Beyond results show that, overall, effect concern...

In an era of over-reliance on online media technologies in disasters, this research examines the journalistic functions played by Puerto Rican AM radio workers during Hurricane Maria. Throughout emergency there was total loss electricity and communications, nonetheless local continued operations. This study is one a few that explore practices disaster context Spanish-language system. Through qualitative analysis in-depth interviews with workers, we found spite having preparedness plans,...

Climate change has been widely perceived as a psychologically distant risk, largely viewed separated from one’s direct experience. Using construal-level theory, we examined how the level of abstraction and concreteness climate imagery affects viewers’ psychological distance change, including spatial, temporal, social, hypothetical (level uncertainty) distances. Participants ( n = 402) were randomly assigned to one two experimental conditions, with abstract images concrete images. Results...

Recent studies have found mixed evidence about the role of psychological distance climate change in people's engagement with issue. To gain more clarity application construal level theory communication, we used two online experiments to investigate how abstract and concrete construals imagery may differentially influence perceived distances Specifically, clarified conceptual differences between subdimensions (i.e. egocentric nonegocentric) showed types differ communication. Findings also...

Detecting and monitoring collective public opinion via social media platforms can provide real-time information to researchers policymakers. Human emotions, culture, opinions be tracked over time understand where different sentiments manifest themselves geographically. Expanding on existing methodology, the present study draws from sentiment analysis point pattern categorize analyze toward natural gas across United States as a means of applying these techniques together. Three methods...