Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/10755470231165941
Miles C. Coleman, Brandon Simon, Matt Pierce, Charles A. Schutte
This research note describes ByrdBot, a science communication tool that leverages bird songs to communicate data regarding human impacts on the environment. With ByrdBot, listeners can compare simulated soundscapes of 1970, 2017, and 2065 to immediately, and viscerally, experience decades of past or projected future environmental change. The communication tactic of ByrdBot—what we call emergent sonification—is discussed as one that capitalizes on computational media to facilitate attunement to nonhuman voices and, subsequently, to offer an affective grasping of the impacts of such phenomena as habitat destruction and climate change on wildlife displacement and loss.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01Epub Date: 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1177/10755470221151184
Rachel Ellenwood, Amanda D Boyd, Zoe Higheagle Strong
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected Native American people and communities across the United States. Despite unequal losses during the pandemic, Native Americans have high vaccination rates. We provide insight into perspectives of COVID-19 and vaccinations through in-depth interviews with Native Americans. Through this research, we provide a holistic view of how Native Americans perceive vaccines by pairing Indigenous perspectives of risk and the Health Belief Model. We discuss the importance of tribal sovereignty in developing health communication strategies, and the need for messaging that is trusted and culturally appropriate.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1177/10755470231153634
Shupei Yuan, Colin Kuehl
As the tenor of climate change debates continues to intensify, it is critical to understand how shifts in style and target affect individuals’ proenvironmental behaviors. Using two online experiments, we investigated how these changes can violate expectations in ways that affect persuasive power. The results suggest that an aggressive style is likely to expectancy violation, which negatively affects individuals’ private- and public-sphere behavioral intentions. Differences in the framing of responsibility between individuals and institutions had limited impacts. The findings offer insights and practical implications for environmental communicators on how communication styles and framing affect efforts to shift climate change behaviors.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1177/10755470221147286
Shaokun Chen, Kaixuan Fu, Biao Yang, Xin Lian
The carbon neutrality goal requires citizens’ awareness and participation. Public art attracts audiences to spread awareness by intervening in urban space, which is conducive to the visualization and receptivity of abstract social issues. This article introduces the light art installation “Arctic Melting.” It gives citizens an immersive and interactive experience of the impact of carbon emissions on Arctic glaciers. Twenty-eight viewers’ scores and 15 citizens’ comments were collected. Results show that this installation brings good visual attraction, sensory experience, aesthetic appreciation, and conceptual thinking. This proves light art installations effectively enhance citizens’ awareness of important social issues such as carbon neutrality.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1177/10755470231151452
Jingyuan Shi, Zixi Li, Liang Chen, Hongjie Tang
In this study, we tested the core premise of the risk perception attitude framework—that perceived risk and perceived efficacy jointly affect intention—and identified consideration of future consequences (CFC) as a boundary condition of the premise in the context of mitigating climate change. Our two-wave survey (N = 439) revealed that perceived individual-level efficacy predicted intention to perform individual behavior, whereas perceived societal-level risk predicted intention to engage in collective action. For individuals with low CFC, perceived risk and perceived efficacy’s joint effect was positively associated with intention to engage in individual behavior and collective action against climate change.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10755470221150503
Amanda Hinnant, Sisi Hu, Yoorim Hong, R. Young
This study examined how user comments influence perceptions of a less-controversial news story. The results of a 2 (argument direction: supporting vs. dissenting comments) × 2 (evidence type: anecdotal vs. scientific evidence referenced in comments) between-subjects factorial design experiment with a no-comments control group (N = 426) showed that comments have independent effects on the evaluation of medical science news stories on perceived relevance, uncertainty, and risk perception. Also, the types of comments interact with participants’ intellectual humility and subjective numeracy. The findings illustrate that comments may have a deleterious impact on audience perception of journalistic stories and scientific issues.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10755470221147887
Piotr S. Bobkowski, C. Etheridge
To facilitate greater integration of statistical reasoning and data instruction in journalism and mass communication (JMC) college curricula, this research note advocates designing collective instruction for journalism and strategic communication students organized around the data literacy construct. It introduces a Data Project Lifecycle model that maps statistics, data, and computational skills discussed across the literature, and which can be used in instructional design. Input from 24 journalism and strategic communication practitioners with data experience identifies essential data skills for JMC graduates: spreadsheet wherewithal, fluency in industry-standard software, ability to tell compelling stories with data, visualization, and self-directed learning.
{"title":"Spreadsheets, Software, Storytelling, Visualization, Lifelong Learning: Essential Data Skills for Journalism and Strategic Communication Students","authors":"Piotr S. Bobkowski, C. Etheridge","doi":"10.1177/10755470221147887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470221147887","url":null,"abstract":"To facilitate greater integration of statistical reasoning and data instruction in journalism and mass communication (JMC) college curricula, this research note advocates designing collective instruction for journalism and strategic communication students organized around the data literacy construct. It introduces a Data Project Lifecycle model that maps statistics, data, and computational skills discussed across the literature, and which can be used in instructional design. Input from 24 journalism and strategic communication practitioners with data experience identifies essential data skills for JMC graduates: spreadsheet wherewithal, fluency in industry-standard software, ability to tell compelling stories with data, visualization, and self-directed learning.","PeriodicalId":47828,"journal":{"name":"Science Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"95 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48676790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10755470231153690
S. Priest, L. Kahlor, R. Griffin
This introduction to our February 2023 issue is intended to provide context for the issue content, which presents multiple examples of the ongoing influence of the work of the late Sharon Dunwoody. Contemporary research articles, commentary pieces, and the introduction itself reflect Sharon’s deep influence on science communication and science communication researchers and their work.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-16DOI: 10.1177/10755470221149438
H. P. Peters
Sharon Dunwoody gained international reputation for her research on science journalism and media risk communication. Drawing on her publications published over more than four decades and the author’s long-lasting collaboration with her, this commentary elaborates on three of her most characteristic beliefs and orientations and suggests that they may serve as timely lessons for us to critically reflect on current assumptions and practices: substance over showmanship, improving one-way communication, and respecting the audience.
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