Improving Environmental Interventions by Understanding Information Flows

Lange, Emiel de; Milner‐Gulland, E. J.; Keane, Aidan

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.06.007

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“…Although television and other mass media are generally considered to provide transient messages (de Lange et al, 2019), we found that effects on audience awareness of species persisted beyond the broadcast of Planet Earth 2. For shows with a clearer conservation agenda, such longer-term effects may indeed be linked to public behavioral changes and proactive actions.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…We performed qualitative and quantitative analysis of the show's content and analyzed Twitter and Wikipedia big data activity to evaluate audience reactions to the broadcast and subsequent engagement for information (Okoli, Mehdi, Mesgari, Nielsen, & Lanamäki, ; Toivonen et al., ). As messages delivered through television and other media are considered transient (de Lange et al., ), we then investigated whether the show instigated longer‐term changes in public awareness (i.e., beyond the broadcast of the show) and proactive behaviors (Nilsson, Fielding, & Dean, ). Finally, we compared the magnitude of the effects of Planet Earth 2 on audiences to that achieved by wildlife awareness campaigns.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The current environmental crisis results from maladaptive human behaviors (Maloney & Ward, 1973) and requires widespread behavioral changes (IPBES, 2019;Mascia et al, 2003). However, the role of conservation messaging and information transfer in eliciting behavioral changes is still poorly understood (de Lange, Milner-Gulland, & Keane, 2019;Kidd et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We performed qualitative and quantitative analysis of the show's content and analyzed Twitter and Wikipedia big data activity to evaluate audience reactions to the broadcast and subsequent engagement for information (Okoli, Mehdi, Mesgari, Nielsen, & Lanamäki, 2014;Toivonen et al, 2019). As messages delivered through television and other media are considered transient (de Lange et al, 2019), we then investigated whether the show instigated longer-term changes in public awareness (i.e., beyond the broadcast of the show) F I G U R E 1 Proposed framework for the dissemination and transfer of ecological awareness. (a) Current knowledge of the natural world and conservation issues affecting it (i.e., ecological and species awareness, conservation status and threats); (b) filtering or selection of this knowledge for dissemination; (c) public reaction; (d) public engagement for information; (e) changes in societal awareness and proactive actions that can feed back into the natural world.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Natural history films raise species awareness—A big data approach

Fernández‐Bellon

Kane

2019

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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In urbanized societies that are increasingly disconnected from nature, communicating ecological and species awareness is crucial to revert the global environmental crisis. However, our understanding of the effectiveness of this process is limited. We present a framework for describing how such awareness may be transferred and test it on the popular BBC show Planet Earth 2 by analyzing Twitter and Wikipedia big data activity. Despite lacking explicit conservation themes, this show generated species awareness, stimulating audience engagement for information at magnitudes comparable to those achieved by other conservation‐focused campaigns. Results suggest that natural history films can provide vicarious connections to nature and can generate durable shifts in audience awareness beyond the broadcast of the show—key factors for changing environmental attitudes. More broadly, this study underscores how open‐source big data analysis can inform effective dissemination of ecological awareness and provides a framework for future research for investigating behavioral change.

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confidence: 74%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We performed qualitative and quantitative analysis of the show's content and analyzed Twitter and Wikipedia big data activity to evaluate audience reactions to the broadcast and subsequent engagement for information (Okoli, Mehdi, Mesgari, Nielsen, & Lanamäki, 2014;Toivonen et al, 2019). As messages delivered through television and other media are considered transient (de Lange et al, 2019), we then investigated whether the show instigated longer-term changes in public awareness (i.e., beyond the broadcast of the show) F I G U R E 1 Proposed framework for the dissemination and transfer of ecological awareness. (a) Current knowledge of the natural world and conservation issues affecting it (i.e., ecological and species awareness, conservation status and threats); (b) filtering or selection of this knowledge for dissemination; (c) public reaction; (d) public engagement for information; (e) changes in societal awareness and proactive actions that can feed back into the natural world.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Natural history films raise species awareness—A big data approach

Fernández‐Bellon

Kane

2019

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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“…5) Ability to be sensitive to factors that can make predictions inaccurate. 6) The ability to distinguish the type of value of consideration and a prediction (de Lange et al, 2019).…”

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The Use of Augmented Reality Blended Learning for Improving Understanding of Food Security

Pujiastuti

Haryadi

2020

JPII

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The purpose of this study was to increase students’ understanding of the food security concept. The experimental method was being applied in this research. Moreover, research subjects were divided into two groups, one as an experimental group and another as a control group. The subjects of this study were 100 students at the Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa. Fifty students are guided under Augmented Reality based blended learning system as the experimental group. Another class of 50 students is on the control group, which studies with the conventional blended learning approach. The experimental class obtained 73% of the N-gain result, while control class obtained 50%. Therefore, it can be concluded that using augmented reality can improve the students’ understanding of the food security concept.

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