Internet image search outputs propagate climate change sentiment and impact policy support

IF 29.6 1区 地球科学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Nature Climate Change Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI:10.1038/s41558-024-02178-w
Michael Berkebile-Weinberg, Runji Gao, Rachel Tang, Madalina Vlasceanu
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A critical step in tackling climate change involves structural, system-level changes facilitating action. Despite their ubiquity, little is known about how internet search algorithms portray climate change, and how these portrayals impact concern and action. In a sample of 49 countries, we found that nationwide climate concern, but not nation-level climate impact, predicted the emotional arousal caused by climate change Google Image Search outputs, as rated by a naive sample (n = 383). In a follow-up experiment we randomly assigned another sample (n = 899) to receive the climate change image outputs resulting from searches conducted in countries high or low in pre-existing climate concern, and found that participants exposed to images from countries with high pre-existing concern (compared to low) became more concerned about climate change, supportive of climate policy and likely to act pro-environmentally, suggesting a cycle of climate sentiment propagation systemically facilitated by internet search algorithms. We discuss the implications of these findings for climate action interventions.

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互联网图像搜索结果传播气候变化情绪并影响政策支持
应对气候变化的一个关键步骤涉及促进行动的结构性、系统级变化。尽管互联网无处不在,但人们对互联网搜索算法如何描述气候变化以及这些描述如何影响人们的关注和行动却知之甚少。在对 49 个国家的抽样调查中,我们发现,全国范围内的气候担忧,而非国家层面的气候影响,可以预测气候变化谷歌图片搜索输出结果所引起的情绪唤醒,并由天真样本(n = 383)进行评分。在后续实验中,我们随机分配了另一个样本(n = 899),让他们接收在气候关注度高或低的国家搜索到的气候变化图像结果,结果发现,与关注度低的国家相比,接触到关注度高的国家图像的参与者会更加关注气候变化,支持气候政策,并有可能采取环保行动,这表明互联网搜索算法系统性地促进了气候情绪传播的循环。我们将讨论这些发现对气候行动干预的影响。
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Nature Climate Change
Nature Climate Change ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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40.30
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1.60%
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267
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4-8 weeks
期刊介绍: Nature Climate Change is dedicated to addressing the scientific challenge of understanding Earth's changing climate and its societal implications. As a monthly journal, it publishes significant and cutting-edge research on the nature, causes, and impacts of global climate change, as well as its implications for the economy, policy, and the world at large. The journal publishes original research spanning the natural and social sciences, synthesizing interdisciplinary research to provide a comprehensive understanding of climate change. It upholds the high standards set by all Nature-branded journals, ensuring top-tier original research through a fair and rigorous review process, broad readership access, high standards of copy editing and production, rapid publication, and independence from academic societies and other vested interests. Nature Climate Change serves as a platform for discussion among experts, publishing opinion, analysis, and review articles. It also features Research Highlights to highlight important developments in the field and original reporting from renowned science journalists in the form of feature articles. Topics covered in the journal include adaptation, atmospheric science, ecology, economics, energy, impacts and vulnerability, mitigation, oceanography, policy, sociology, and sustainability, among others.
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