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The role of values, norms, and media use in public perceptions of climate change: A cross-cultural and U.S. analysis.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The role of values, norms, and media use in public perceptions of climate change: A cross-cultural and U.S. analysis./
Author:	Akin, Heather.
Description:	183 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3722959
ISBN:	9781339054070

The role of values, norms, and media use in public perceptions of climate change: A cross-cultural and U.S. analysis.
Akin, Heather.

The role of values, norms, and media use in public perceptions of climate change: A cross-cultural and U.S. analysis. - 183 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015.

While climate change has been on media and political agendas for nearly three decades, it has resulted in varying levels of public concern and ineffectual response and policy. The disparity between the scientific consensus about climate change and public responsiveness indicates a need to understand the human dimensions of climate change, in addition to the scientific aspects.

ISBN: 9781339054070Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

The role of values, norms, and media use in public perceptions of climate change: A cross-cultural and U.S. analysis.
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520 $a The focus of this dissertation is how values, cultural and contextual factors, and normative beliefs influence public perceptions of climate change. This research is based on three aspects of the human dimensions of climate change: (1) how contextual factors impact public opinion cross-nationally, (2) the effect of mass media, and (3) the role of motivated reasoning in shaping perceptions.
520 $a In the first study, I conduct a cross-national analysis of individuals' values, knowledge, and ideology and countries' national wealth, vulnerability, and climate change performance on individual perceptions of this issue, using multilevel modeling to account for the lack of independence between citizens residing within a country. In the second study, I move past the focus in empirical research on climate change skepticism to assess how Americans perceive of mitigation and adaptation policies distinctively. I consider the impact of individuals' media use, knowledge, values, and norms on support for these different policies. In the third study, I analyze how values, beliefs, and media use impact Americans' normative beliefs about Chinese and German people's climate change concern. I hypothesize that these impressions, shaped by media, result in probably inaccurate beliefs about others' concern.
520 $a I conclude the dissertation by providing a summary of the key findings in each of the three studies and the implications for communication research, social science methods, and public policy. I argue that research on public attitudes toward and the environment should utilize multilevel analysis to account for the lack of independence between people living in societies with their own sets of environmental risks and policies. Lastly, I discuss how there is no 'one size fits all' model for public attitudes toward climate change and make the case for more nuanced exploration of the social dynamics relevant to different facets of this issue.
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