气候变化一代：直言不讳但过于自信？高估自己气候知识的年轻人如何使用社交媒体并与他人互动

IF 4.9 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI:10.1177/20563051251341792

Niels G. Mede, Lara Kobilke, Nayla Fawzi, Thomas Zerback

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摘要

研究表明，社交媒体会导致用户，尤其是年轻人，高估他们对气候变化的了解。知识高估可能会导致用户更频繁地与其他人就气候变化进行交流。我们对年龄在18-29岁的受访者进行了四波面板调查，以检验这些假设。我们发现，社交媒体曝光与受访者高估其气候变化知识的倾向呈正相关，但我们没有发现因果关系。高估还与感知到的信息过载、主观数字素养和对社交媒体评论的信任有关。虽然高估并没有导致对气候变化更直言不讳，但它增加了受访者说服他人和与政治家接触的努力。这些结果对科学传播和教育具有启示意义。

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The Climate Change Generation: Vocal but Overconfident? How Young Adults Who Overestimate Their Climate Knowledge Use Social Media and Engage With Others

Research suggests that social media can cause users, especially young adults, to overestimate their knowledge about climate change. Knowledge overestimation may then lead users to communicate more frequently about climate change with others. We test these hypotheses with a four-wave panel survey of respondents aged 18–29 years. We find that social media exposure is positively associated with respondents’ tendencies to overestimate their knowledge about climate change, but we do not find causal effects. Overestimation is also related to perceived information overload, subjective digital literacy, and trust in social media comments. While overestimation did not cause higher outspokenness about climate change, it increased respondents’ efforts to persuade others and engage with politicians. These results have implications for science communication and education.

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.