Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2130388
Ryan N. Comfort
ABSTRACT Indigenous people living away from their homelands represent a substantial but under-researched population in environmental communication. Through a series of interviews with 21citizens living in the U.S. Indigenous diaspora at four separate field sites, the present study explores how environmental information moves to and through this population, with particular focus on the roles of social media, government communicators, and multimedia storytelling. For the citizens interviewed, mediated environmental communication helped maintain cultural connections and sometimes provided the basis for political action. Social media, particularly Facebook, were cited as key channels of environmental information. Elected leaders served as sources of environmental information with the official communications of environmental departments rarely cited as sources. Newspapers and newsletters still played an important role, but citizens also saw multimedia storytelling as an important new way to both maintain traditional ecological knowledge and communicate about the foundations of Indigenous environmental governance.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-26DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2071314
Lisa Oswald, Jonathan Bright
ABSTRACT Does exposure to opposing views contribute to breaking down science skepticism? In this study, we contribute to the debate by examining reactions to opposing views within a major climate change skeptic online community on “Reddit.” A large sample of posts (N = 3000) was manually coded according to whether they were opposed to climate skepticism or not, which allowed the automated classification of the full dataset of more than 50,000 posts, with codes inferred from linked websites. We find that confrontation with opposing views triggered activity in the forum, particularly among users who are highly engaged with the community. Those engaging with such views were also more likely to comment again. In other words, light engagement with opposition reinforced the community we study, rather than undermining it. Considering our findings, defensive or preventive policies appear more promising than strategies to actively counter systematic and persistent skepticism of scientific issues.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2102047
Lisa G. Perks, Amanda Davis Gatchet, R. D. Gatchet
ABSTRACT Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the U.S. and other countries around the world saw a dramatic increase in the number of people starting pandemic gardens. In this article, the authors use rhetorical framing analysis to explore how news coverage of this gardening boom presented the illusion of control framed around the themes of economics, food sovereignty, physical and mental health, and community and connection. It concludes with a discussion of how these four themes offer an overly-optimistic view of gardening that deemphasizes sustainability, focuses on processes over harvests, and ignores food chain inequities.
{"title":"The Need for Seed: News Framing of the Pandemic Gardening Boom","authors":"Lisa G. Perks, Amanda Davis Gatchet, R. D. Gatchet","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2022.2102047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2022.2102047","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the U.S. and other countries around the world saw a dramatic increase in the number of people starting pandemic gardens. In this article, the authors use rhetorical framing analysis to explore how news coverage of this gardening boom presented the illusion of control framed around the themes of economics, food sovereignty, physical and mental health, and community and connection. It concludes with a discussion of how these four themes offer an overly-optimistic view of gardening that deemphasizes sustainability, focuses on processes over harvests, and ignores food chain inequities.","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"54 1","pages":"550 - 562"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90687150","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 : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2063917
Cara A. Augustenborg, L. Kelleher, E. O’Neill, Hayley Cloona
ABSTRACT Public perception of drought is an important factor in sustainable water use. Heightened media coverage of drought events is shown to reduce public water consumption. This research examined Ireland's 2018 summer drought to identify how drought was framed in three broadsheet newspapers through a media content analysis over 19 weeks. Ireland provided a novel case study due to its rainy climate and lack of drought management strategies. Since the 1970s, few hydrological droughts occurred in Ireland, but forecasts indicate the country is likely to experience greater precipitation deficits in summer. In Ireland, as elsewhere, greater understanding of behavioural change and water conservation communication is needed given projected trends for increased frequency and severity of drought events. This research explored water conservation communication in the media to support better public response to future droughts in Ireland and elsewhere. Results demonstrated delayed media coverage of the drought and insufficient advice may have hampered public water conservation efforts. In addition, the role of climate change in exacerbating drought was under and misrepresented, potentially discouraging mitigative behaviours and acceptance of climate and water management policies. Earlier coverage of impending droughts with relevant advice could improve public efforts in water conservation and drought adaptation.
{"title":"Insights from the 2018 Drought in Ireland’s Broadsheet Media","authors":"Cara A. Augustenborg, L. Kelleher, E. O’Neill, Hayley Cloona","doi":"10.1080/17524032.2022.2063917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2022.2063917","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Public perception of drought is an important factor in sustainable water use. Heightened media coverage of drought events is shown to reduce public water consumption. This research examined Ireland's 2018 summer drought to identify how drought was framed in three broadsheet newspapers through a media content analysis over 19 weeks. Ireland provided a novel case study due to its rainy climate and lack of drought management strategies. Since the 1970s, few hydrological droughts occurred in Ireland, but forecasts indicate the country is likely to experience greater precipitation deficits in summer. In Ireland, as elsewhere, greater understanding of behavioural change and water conservation communication is needed given projected trends for increased frequency and severity of drought events. This research explored water conservation communication in the media to support better public response to future droughts in Ireland and elsewhere. Results demonstrated delayed media coverage of the drought and insufficient advice may have hampered public water conservation efforts. In addition, the role of climate change in exacerbating drought was under and misrepresented, potentially discouraging mitigative behaviours and acceptance of climate and water management policies. Earlier coverage of impending droughts with relevant advice could improve public efforts in water conservation and drought adaptation.","PeriodicalId":54205,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture","volume":"29 1","pages":"445 - 457"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86976388","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 : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2102048
M. Guan, F. J. Jennings, Isabel I. Villanueva, Daniel Jackson
ABSTRACT As environmental threats mount around the world, advocacy groups are exploring novel ways to reach the populace and spur them into action. The current study employs an experimental design with a control condition and a group that watched a pro-environmental video to test the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model. A short environmental advocacy video demonstrated the ability to engage viewers in combatting the problem of single-use plastic overproduction by increasing risk perception, generating negative affect, encouraging information seeking, and fostering pro-environmental civic participation intentions. The present study contributes important theoretical insights to the RISP model and provides meaningful practical applications in the fight to protect our planet.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-21DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2053181
Ahmed Al-Rawi, Breanna Blackwell, O. Kane, Derrick O'Keefe, A. Bizimana
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the proliferation of memes linked to COVID-19 and climate change online discussions, looking particularly at how themes related to these two issues intersect with each other. To better understand the intersections, cross-pollinations, and mutations between these different but related forms of information dissemination, our research is based on applied thematic analysis and empirically analyzes memes deployed through two popular social media platforms (Facebook and Instagram). Both issues pose existential threats to humans, and studying the connection between the two through social media memetic discourses offers important empirical insight into ordinary users’ views. The findings reveal eight themes that show different kinds of relations between COVID-19 and climate change. Memes present COVID-19 either as a solution or as a problem to climate change; they portray different effects between COVID-19 and climate change, and some consider both of them as hoaxes and/or conspiracies. Similarly, to previous studies, we see a relationship between political ideologies and views on climate change and COVID-19. Additionally, our findings show that believing climate change as a hoax and/or conspiracy is also linked to the same view that COVID-19 is fake. We also found a reasonably even spread of themes across both Instagram and Facebook, indicating that these social platforms do not harbor a clear ideological split.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2062020
L. Rickard, Cynthia L. Houston, B. McGreavy, B. Johnson, Gabriella Gurney
ABSTRACT The farming of aquatic species in water environments, aquaculture is presently the fastest-growing food producing sector worldwide yet is unfamiliar to many Americans. In this study, we examine perceptions of land-based recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), a novel approach to raising fish. Through in-depth interviews (n = 71) with diverse stakeholders in four US communities, we explore how individuals make sense of the risks and benefits associated with proposed or existing RAS facilities and situate these judgments in the context of “naturalness.” As a hybrid of fishing and industrial farming, land-based RAS can both support and undermine perceived naturalness, thus posing both perceived benefits and risks to local environments and economies. As a form of restoration, some RAS projects bring economic and environmental revitalization to communities; however, this restoration is understood in the context of a site’s historical use. Findings contribute to emerging environmental scholarship on food systems communication, and offer practical applications for public communication surrounding aquaculture development.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2062019
V. Carfora, Nadja Zeiske, E. van der Werff, L. Steg, P. Catellani
ABSTRACT Research has shown that dynamic norm information can promote pro-environmental actions (i.e. information indicating that a growing number of people are behaving pro-environmentally). Yet, the question remains whether adding dynamic norm information would increase the effectiveness of information on the environmental consequences of behavior. We compared the effects of environmental information with versus without dynamic norm information on encouraging reductions in meat consumption, and whether effects would depend on receivers’ intrinsic motivation. We also explored whether message effectiveness would vary according to receivers’ intrinsic motivation to reduce meat consumption. In total 197 volunteers participated in a one-month messaging intervention through a chatbot. Results showed that both environmental and environmental + dynamic norm messages increased positive attitude towards reducing meat consumption, and decreased meat consumption. These effects were still present at follow-up (i.e. one month after the intervention stopped). Interestingly, both messages particularly persuaded receivers with a relatively weak intrinsic motivation to reduce meat consumption, while environmental only messages were even counterproductive in receivers with a relatively strong intrinsic motivation. These results advance our comprehension of the effects of messages aimed at reducing meat consumption.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2060276
C. Freeman, Allen Zimmerman
ABSTRACT The link between current dietary patterns and their adverse impact on the environment is well established. Thus, previous studies have raised concerns that environmental social movement organizations, as social change entrepreneurs, often fail to adequately make food an issue, especially animal-based foods, nor strongly advocate needed solutions, including shifting to plant-based diets. Building upon this, but specifically addressing the biodiversity crisis through a critical animal studies lens, we examine how seven international conservation organizations connect wildlife issues to human food production and consumption. Through a collective action framing analysis of social movement websites, we ascertain in what ways and to what extent these conservation organizations (1) recognize dietary choices, farming, and fishing as drivers of species loss and harm to animals, (2) suggest individual consumer solutions and systemic government and industry solutions (both voluntary and legally-mandated), and (3) appeal to motivational values that are not just anthropocentric, but also ecocentric and biocentric (showing concern for the welfare and rights of individual animals, human and nonhuman). We make strategic recommendations for including biocentric and interspecies justice perspectives in food advocacy messaging of conservation organizations to help stem the tide of mass extinction while cultivating greater respect for all types of animals.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2054842
Alice Fonseca, Paula Castro
ABSTRACT Considering the impact of Greta Thunberg on the contemporary climate debate and activism, this article seeks to understand the meaning-making patterns that structure her message. An interdisciplinary approach is used, integrating socio-psychological perspectives with the environmental citizenship literature, to develop a systematic analysis of 25 of Thunberg’s public speeches, exploring: (1) the oppositional meaning-categories (themata) she chooses as relevant for making sense of climate change and her positions regarding them; (2) how she values or devalues different climate actors; (3) the type of environmental citizenship she constructs. Findings show that the themata structuring Thunberg’s message – notably action/inaction – are accompanied by a counter-stereotypical devaluation of “leaders” as cold and incompetent and valuation of “youth” and “public” as competent. Her emphasis on collective responsibilities over individual rights and call on citizens to publicly demand transformative climate action also signal how Thunberg constructs an environmental citizenship aligned with “strong sustainability”.
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