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How environment-focused communities discuss COVID-19 online: an analysis of social (risk) amplification and ripple effects on Reddit 关注环境的社区如何在线讨论COVID-19:对Reddit上的社会(风险)放大和连锁反应的分析

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2056222

Matthew S. VanDyke, Brian C. Britt, R. Britt, Courtny L. Franco

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引用次数: 2

Construing Climate Change: Psychological Distance, Individual Difference, and Construal Level of Climate Change 气候变化解释:心理距离、个体差异与气候变化解释水平

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2061027

Haoran Chu

引用次数: 4

Discussion of Climate Change on Reddit: Polarized Discourse or Deliberative Debate? Reddit上关于气候变化的讨论:两极分化的话语还是深思熟虑的辩论?

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-10 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2050776

K. Treen, Hywel T. P. Williams, S. O'Neill, Travis G. Coan

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引用次数: 7

The Six Australias: Concern About Climate Change (and Global Warming) is Rising 六个澳大利亚人:对气候变化(和全球变暖)的担忧正在上升

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-05 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2048407

Claudio Neumann, Samantha K. Stanley, Z. Leviston, Iain Walker

引用次数: 9

Understanding Public Willingness to Pay More for Plant-based Meat: Environmental and Health Consciousness as Precursors to the Influence of Presumed Media Influence Model 了解公众为植物性肉类支付更多费用的意愿:环境和健康意识是假定媒体影响模型影响的前兆

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2051576

S. Ho, Agnes S. F. Chuah, Elizabeth L. Q. Koh, Liying Ong, Vivien Q. Y. Kwan

{"title":"Understanding Public Willingness to Pay More for Plant-based Meat: Environmental and Health Consciousness as Precursors to the Influence of Presumed Media Influence Model","authors":"S. Ho, Agnes S. F. Chuah, Elizabeth L. Q. Koh, Liying Ong, Vivien Q. Y. Kwan","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2022.2051576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2022.2051576","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Expanding upon the Influence of Presumed Media Influence (IPMI) model, our study investigates prior beliefs as precursors to the IPMI model in predicting individuals’ willingness to pay more for plant-based meat. Our survey of 1,008 adult Singaporeans revealed that attention to benefit media messages on plant-based meat was positively associated with presumed others’ attention. This subsequently predicted attitudes and perceived social norms of paying more for the product which, except for descriptive norms, in turn predicted individuals’ willingness to pay more. More importantly, we found that prior beliefs – namely environmental and health consciousness – were predictive of attention to media messages on plant-based meat, indicating selective exposure to media messages. Theoretically, our findings highlight the importance of pre-existing beliefs on the IPMI model. Practically, recommendations for key stakeholders on how to enhance individuals’ willingness to pay more for the product were discussed.","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"69 1","pages":"520 - 534"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89077760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

What is Public Engagement and How Does it Help to Address Climate Change? A Review of Climate Communication Research 什么是公众参与?公众参与如何帮助应对气候变化?气候传播研究综述

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2055601

Ville Kumpu

引用次数: 8

Choose Your Own Emotion: Predictors of Selective Exposure to Emotion-Inducing Climate Messages 选择你自己的情绪:选择性暴露于情绪诱导气候信息的预测因子

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2083207

Chris Skurka, Rainer Romero-Canyas, H. H. Joo, J. Niederdeppe

引用次数: 3

Media Diets of Vegetarians. How News Consumption, Social Media Use and Communicating with One’s Social Environment are Associated with a Vegetarian Diet 素食者的媒体饮食。新闻消费、社交媒体使用和与社会环境的沟通与素食有什么关系

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2051575

S. Kley, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Alicia Dunker

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引用次数: 5

Feed for Thought: Factors Predicting Public Support for Funding and Labeling Preferences of Alternative Aquafeed 饲料的思想:因素预测公众支持的资金和标签偏好的替代水产饲料

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2051577

S. Ho, Wen-Dee Tan, Agnes S. F. Chuah, Pearlyn Y. Y. Chua, Keith X. L. Lau, Joshua Z. A. Chan

引用次数: 1

Discursive Strategies for Climate Change Reporting: A Case Study of The Mercury News 气候变化报道的话语策略:以《水星报》为例

IF 2.7 3区社会学

Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2048043

Sonia Parratt-Fernández, María-Ángeles Chaparro-Domínguez, G. Gilbert

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引用次数: 4