Pub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2237203
Tong Jee Goh, S. Ho
ABSTRACT In a bid to strengthen food security, cities are embracing urban farming to produce food. It is believed that urban farming is a sustainable means of cultivating crops for urban populations. Urban farms are equipped with advanced technology to optimize crop yield. Meanwhile, multiple media contents have reviewed the risks and benefits of urban farming for consumers. Applying an extended norm-activation model, this study examined how the relationships among technological optimism, biospheric values, attention to media content on the risks and benefits of urban farming, and the norm-activation constructs predict the intention to consume the produce of urban farms. Results of a cross-sectional survey conducted in Singapore (N = 1209) showed that technological optimism and biospheric values influenced attention to media content. These variables in turn influenced personal norms and intention to consume through the norm-activation constructs.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2234654
A. Catellani, Céline Cholet, Céline Pascual Espuny
ABSTRACT This article explores the development of a new vision in French media productions of plants as beings with intelligence and sentience. The first part of the article presents data on the increase in the number of media about plants and, particularly, plant intelligence and sentience, in France, between 2014 and 2020. A multimedia corpus composed of books, magazine issues and documentaries is the basis for this assessment. The second part proposes an observation of a part of this corpus, aiming at identifying some specific visual and textual devices related to the staging of the intelligence and sensitivity of plants. The third part proposes some theoretical observations concerning the semantic work involved in the new narrative of plant intelligence and sensibility and its implications for the Western vision of plants. The article shows this new narrative has challenged Western naturalism, as defined by Descola, and shaken its ontological structure.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2229043
M. Meijers, Ragnheiður “Heather” Torfadóttir, Anke Wonneberger, E. Maslowska
ABSTRACT We conducted a pre-registered, between-subjects experiment to investigate whether experiencing climate change consequences virtually can influence cognitions, emotions, and pro-environmental intentions and behaviors. Participants (N = 277) experienced a wildfire through different media that varied in their degree of technological immersiveness (virtual reality vs. regular video vs. magazine articles only). Participants in the virtual reality condition reported higher spatial presence, stronger emotional responses, stronger bodily responses, and reported that the experience felt more life-like. Increased spatial presence was associated with increased risk perceptions and negative emotions. Risk perceptions and negative emotions were subsequently associated with reduced intentions to consume dairy and meat, but not associated with actual plant-based food choices (vegan vs. non-vegan chocolate bar). Actual donations to ENGOs were only influenced by risk perceptions, not emotions. The role of psychological distance was explored, which led to different conclusions for quantitative (no effect of virtual reality) and qualitative measures (virtual reality can reduce psychological distance).
{"title":"Experiencing Climate Change Virtually: The Effects of Virtual Reality on Climate Change Related Cognitions, Emotions, and Behavior","authors":"M. Meijers, Ragnheiður “Heather” Torfadóttir, Anke Wonneberger, E. Maslowska","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2023.2229043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2229043","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We conducted a pre-registered, between-subjects experiment to investigate whether experiencing climate change consequences virtually can influence cognitions, emotions, and pro-environmental intentions and behaviors. Participants (N = 277) experienced a wildfire through different media that varied in their degree of technological immersiveness (virtual reality vs. regular video vs. magazine articles only). Participants in the virtual reality condition reported higher spatial presence, stronger emotional responses, stronger bodily responses, and reported that the experience felt more life-like. Increased spatial presence was associated with increased risk perceptions and negative emotions. Risk perceptions and negative emotions were subsequently associated with reduced intentions to consume dairy and meat, but not associated with actual plant-based food choices (vegan vs. non-vegan chocolate bar). Actual donations to ENGOs were only influenced by risk perceptions, not emotions. The role of psychological distance was explored, which led to different conclusions for quantitative (no effect of virtual reality) and qualitative measures (virtual reality can reduce psychological distance).","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"35 1","pages":"581 - 601"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90494662","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}
Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2229044
Amjad Ali, Rizwan Akhtar, J. Hussain
ABSTRACT Climate change poses a significant threat to the lives and livelihoods of the local communities in high mountain regions. This study examines the perception of climate change and its impact on the lives and livelihoods of high mountain communities in Gilgit-Baltistan. Empirical evidence was gathered through four focused group discussions and thirty in-depth interviews with the local communities in Darkut and Shishkat areas. This study found that the local communities perceive a noticeable change in temperature patterns in terms of an increase in average temperatures and shorter winters. Such changes lead to the melting of glaciers and subsequently frequent floods during summer. The communities argue that a decrease in snowfall and alterations in the timing of snowfall directly affect the region's water supply. These changes impact the region's key livelihood activities, such as livestock rearing and agriculture, leading to reduced productivity, and an increased reliance on external food sources. This study emphasizes the urgent need for community-based adaptation strategies and support for climate-resilient livelihoods in these regions. It underscores the importance of incorporating the perspectives and experiences of high mountain communities when formulating policies and strategies to address the multifaceted impacts of climate change in mountainous areas.
{"title":"Unveiling High Mountain Communities’ Perception of Climate Change Impact on Lives and Livelihoods in Gilgit-Baltistan: Evidence from People-Centric Approach","authors":"Amjad Ali, Rizwan Akhtar, J. Hussain","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2023.2229044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2229044","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Climate change poses a significant threat to the lives and livelihoods of the local communities in high mountain regions. This study examines the perception of climate change and its impact on the lives and livelihoods of high mountain communities in Gilgit-Baltistan. Empirical evidence was gathered through four focused group discussions and thirty in-depth interviews with the local communities in Darkut and Shishkat areas. This study found that the local communities perceive a noticeable change in temperature patterns in terms of an increase in average temperatures and shorter winters. Such changes lead to the melting of glaciers and subsequently frequent floods during summer. The communities argue that a decrease in snowfall and alterations in the timing of snowfall directly affect the region's water supply. These changes impact the region's key livelihood activities, such as livestock rearing and agriculture, leading to reduced productivity, and an increased reliance on external food sources. This study emphasizes the urgent need for community-based adaptation strategies and support for climate-resilient livelihoods in these regions. It underscores the importance of incorporating the perspectives and experiences of high mountain communities when formulating policies and strategies to address the multifaceted impacts of climate change in mountainous areas.","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"602 - 617"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72925524","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}
Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2225765
Carin Graminius
ABSTRACT Open letters are seen as a politicized form of climate communication, and the professional roles of researchers who engage in these communicative events are thereby cast into question. Based on semi-structured interviews with initiators to open letters, this article argues that while communication can be seen as constitutive and influencing new and emergent professional identities, there are also overlaps and continuations of already established professional identities linked to what appears to be politicized communication. In the case of open letters on climate change, communication can be seen as a reaction against academic professional boundaries, but also a cementation and reaffirmation of one’s professional role that follows institutional boundaries and policies. The implications of this study are that we should not ascribe transformative power to a specific medium of communication, but rather examine the practices and understandings of communicators who engage in such activities.
{"title":"Open Letters and Climate Communication: The Professional Roles and Identities of Researchers in Times of Crisis","authors":"Carin Graminius","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2023.2225765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2225765","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Open letters are seen as a politicized form of climate communication, and the professional roles of researchers who engage in these communicative events are thereby cast into question. Based on semi-structured interviews with initiators to open letters, this article argues that while communication can be seen as constitutive and influencing new and emergent professional identities, there are also overlaps and continuations of already established professional identities linked to what appears to be politicized communication. In the case of open letters on climate change, communication can be seen as a reaction against academic professional boundaries, but also a cementation and reaffirmation of one’s professional role that follows institutional boundaries and policies. The implications of this study are that we should not ascribe transformative power to a specific medium of communication, but rather examine the practices and understandings of communicators who engage in such activities.","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"21 1","pages":"537 - 549"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80996968","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}
Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2227771
Jiyoun Kim, S. Lee, Yuan Wang, Jonathan David Leach
ABSTRACT Based on moral foundations theory and moral framing, through a between-subjects online experiment with a sample of adults residing in the U.S. (N = 407), we compared an individualizing moral frame to a binding moral frame in predicting individuals’ climate change mitigation policies support. Results show that, compared to a pro-environmental message employing binding moral framing, a message using individualizing moral framing leads individuals to perceive that the message is more credible, which in turn increases their support for climate change mitigation policies. This study’s theoretical and practical implications and proposed future directions for research on climate change communication are discussed.
{"title":"The Power of Moral Words in Politicized Climate Change Communication","authors":"Jiyoun Kim, S. Lee, Yuan Wang, Jonathan David Leach","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2023.2227771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2227771","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on moral foundations theory and moral framing, through a between-subjects online experiment with a sample of adults residing in the U.S. (N = 407), we compared an individualizing moral frame to a binding moral frame in predicting individuals’ climate change mitigation policies support. Results show that, compared to a pro-environmental message employing binding moral framing, a message using individualizing moral framing leads individuals to perceive that the message is more credible, which in turn increases their support for climate change mitigation policies. This study’s theoretical and practical implications and proposed future directions for research on climate change communication are discussed.","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"566 - 580"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81960491","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}
Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2226356
Lindsey Meeks
ABSTRACT Mayors are increasingly tackling environmental issues. To enact demonstrable change, however, mayors first need to be elected – leading one to question: How can a candidate create cohesive messaging on environmental issues and win? By content analyzing Anne Hidalgo’s successful 2014 and 2020 mayoral elections in Paris, this study seeks to illuminate potential environmental communication strategies for future candidates. Results revealed Hidalgo favored traditional environmental frames over alternate frames, treatment recommendations over blame attributions, and ecological solidarity frames. Further, Hidalgo employed gender adaptive strategies moving between elections, which enabled her to navigate gendered expectations in becoming Paris’s first female mayor.
{"title":"Promising a Greener Paris: Anne Hidalgo’s Framing of Environmental Issues in Her Mayoral Campaigns","authors":"Lindsey Meeks","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2023.2226356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2226356","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mayors are increasingly tackling environmental issues. To enact demonstrable change, however, mayors first need to be elected – leading one to question: How can a candidate create cohesive messaging on environmental issues and win? By content analyzing Anne Hidalgo’s successful 2014 and 2020 mayoral elections in Paris, this study seeks to illuminate potential environmental communication strategies for future candidates. Results revealed Hidalgo favored traditional environmental frames over alternate frames, treatment recommendations over blame attributions, and ecological solidarity frames. Further, Hidalgo employed gender adaptive strategies moving between elections, which enabled her to navigate gendered expectations in becoming Paris’s first female mayor.","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"14 1","pages":"550 - 565"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74360948","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}
Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2223774
Jing Guo, Xiaoyun Huang, Kecheng Fang
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Chinese news media cover climate change through the lens of authoritarian environmentalism, China’s alternative model of environmental governance. Combining computational methods and manual coding, we analyzed the sourcing patterns of climate change articles across three news media types (party media, financial media, and metropolitan media) from 2013 to 2021. Results showed three features: First, state officials were predominant in all sourcing categories, drowning the voices of experts, non-governmental organizations, and citizens. Second, only a small percentage of sources concerned scientific knowledge, environmental problems, and collective action. Instead, most highlighted climate change campaigns as achievements of China’s leadership. Third, critical opinions were gradually muted over time. These findings indicate that the issue of climate change has been utilized by Chinese news media as a tool to serve the legitimacy of authoritarian governance and promote the image of top leadership, rather than encouraging citizens and stakeholders to participate in environmental actions.
{"title":"Authoritarian Environmentalism as Reflected in the Journalistic Sourcing of Climate Change Reporting in China","authors":"Jing Guo, Xiaoyun Huang, Kecheng Fang","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2023.2223774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2223774","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates how Chinese news media cover climate change through the lens of authoritarian environmentalism, China’s alternative model of environmental governance. Combining computational methods and manual coding, we analyzed the sourcing patterns of climate change articles across three news media types (party media, financial media, and metropolitan media) from 2013 to 2021. Results showed three features: First, state officials were predominant in all sourcing categories, drowning the voices of experts, non-governmental organizations, and citizens. Second, only a small percentage of sources concerned scientific knowledge, environmental problems, and collective action. Instead, most highlighted climate change campaigns as achievements of China’s leadership. Third, critical opinions were gradually muted over time. These findings indicate that the issue of climate change has been utilized by Chinese news media as a tool to serve the legitimacy of authoritarian governance and promote the image of top leadership, rather than encouraging citizens and stakeholders to participate in environmental actions.","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"51 1","pages":"502 - 517"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89733057","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}
Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2223775
Chen Shen, Yang Wang
ABSTRACT Sponge city programs (SCPs) are essential for improving urban resilience and sustainability, while media framing can imperceptibly influence public attitudes and thereby influence the smooth implementation of SCPs. Due to socio-political landscapes, media discourse on official and non-official media is different, changing and evolving as emergency events occur. However, few studies have focused on media disclosure differences or investigated the transformation of SCP-related media discourse before and after emergencies. Therefore, based on text mining methods, this study conducts a longitudinal big-data discourse analysis to compare framing differences in state-oriented newspapers and market-oriented web news. A total of 6,413 news articles from July 17th, 2020 to April 17th, 2022 are crawled. The results demonstrate that SCP publicity involves different narratives covering macro-level and micro-level content. After the disaster, attitudes of web news towards SCP are less supportive than those of state-oriented newspapers. Meanwhile, the most salient differences in SCP benefit coverage are social and economic benefits, and the most salient difference in SCP risk coverage is economic risks. Findings provide a retrospective assessment and present valuable practical implications for evidence-based SCP advocacy.
{"title":"The Impact of Climate Change on Media Coverage of Sponge City Programs: A Text Mining and Machine Learning Analysis","authors":"Chen Shen, Yang Wang","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2023.2223775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2223775","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sponge city programs (SCPs) are essential for improving urban resilience and sustainability, while media framing can imperceptibly influence public attitudes and thereby influence the smooth implementation of SCPs. Due to socio-political landscapes, media discourse on official and non-official media is different, changing and evolving as emergency events occur. However, few studies have focused on media disclosure differences or investigated the transformation of SCP-related media discourse before and after emergencies. Therefore, based on text mining methods, this study conducts a longitudinal big-data discourse analysis to compare framing differences in state-oriented newspapers and market-oriented web news. A total of 6,413 news articles from July 17th, 2020 to April 17th, 2022 are crawled. The results demonstrate that SCP publicity involves different narratives covering macro-level and micro-level content. After the disaster, attitudes of web news towards SCP are less supportive than those of state-oriented newspapers. Meanwhile, the most salient differences in SCP benefit coverage are social and economic benefits, and the most salient difference in SCP risk coverage is economic risks. Findings provide a retrospective assessment and present valuable practical implications for evidence-based SCP advocacy.","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"518 - 535"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78673291","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}
Pub Date : 2023-06-05DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2212136
Imke Hoppe, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw
ABSTRACT Current western food systems are attested to be clearly unsustainable – but are people aware of this in their everyday life as they deal with the food offerings of their preferred supermarkets? To discover which links people actually make between the ecological, economical, and social impacts of the food systems and their personal food choices, our comparative, qualitative content analysis looks at everyday discussions on Facebook pages of supermarket chains in Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, and South Africa (n = 1.775 comments). Our findings reveal that the term “sustainability” is never explicitly mentioned. Yet, people in UK and Germany, which rank high on the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), do link food closely to a number of very concrete sustainability issues (e.g. CO2-emissions, biodiversity, plastic waste) and intra-generational justice (e.g. fair wages). They discuss a broad variety of problems, even though these discussions do not get political (e.g. promoting political activism, petitions, or buycotts). In the samples from Canada and the US, countries which rate lower on the Environmental Performance Index, sustainability issues and food get rarely linked. The findings indicate that higher ambitions in sustainable development on a policy level go hand in hand with higher awareness in everyday life discussions.
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