Natural history films raise species awareness—A big data approach

Fernández‐Bellon, Darío; Kane, Adam

doi:10.1111/conl.12678

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“…For example, Nolan (2010) found that despite the documentary An Inconvenient Truth increasing viewer's concerns about global climate change, this did not lead to a sustained adoption of behaviors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Similarly, the nature documentary series Planet Earth 2 was found to increase species awareness and stimulate engagement among audiences, however this was not found to lead to proactive actions such as donation behaviors (Fernández‐Bellon & Kane, 2019). Both studies also highlight that awareness means very little in the context of behavior change.…”

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Evaluating the impact of the documentary series Blue Planet II on viewers' plastic consumption behaviors

Dunn

Mills

Veríssimo

2020

Conservat Sci and Prac

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The global scale of the ocean plastics crisis demands a collective change in plastic consumption behaviors. The documentary series Blue Planet II has been praised for driving changes in consumer behaviors by raising awareness about this issue, yet there is little evidence that directly links the documentary to viewers' plastic consumption. We investigated the effectiveness of Blue Planet II as a behavior change intervention by conducting randomized control trials and used revealed preferences to measure plastic consumption behaviors. Although environmental knowledge was found to be positively influenced by Blue Planet II, this did not translate into a behavioral change among participants. Our results support the hypothesis that, due to the complexities of human behavior, exposure to a single documentary is unlikely to lead to a distinct increase in individual pro‐environmental actions. However, the potential for Blue Planet II to have an impact at a wider societal level, namely through influencing policy, remains unexplored.

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Evaluating the impact of the documentary series Blue Planet II on viewers' plastic consumption behaviors

Dunn

Mills

Veríssimo

2020

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…Although we detected an increase in Wikipedia visits in early 2017, this is unlikely to have depended upon a lagged effect of the blacklist. Usually, news exposure boosts people's interest towards a certain topic in the short term, and the number of on-line searches progressively declines through time [30] [31] . Therefore, we would have expected an increase in Wikipedia views soon after the publication of the blacklist, in August 2016, and not 6 months later.…”

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Blacklists do not necessarily make people curious about invasive alien species. A case study with Bayesian structural time series and Wikipedia searches about invasive mammals in Italy

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Bertolino²,

Carnevali³

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Blacklists of invasive alien species are a popular tool to manage and prevent biological invasions. Furthermore, by providing accessible examples of invasive alien species and by having a certain media resonance, they can in principle raise the awareness and make laypeople curious towards this topic. However, no study ever tested for this side-effect of blacklists. We tested if the implementation of the first blacklist of invasive alien species of the European concern, by the European Union in August 2016, increased visits to Wikipedia pages about invasive alien mammals in Italy. We adopted Bayesian Structural Time Series, using native mammals as a synthetic control, and we considered both invasive alien mammals that appeared on the list and those which were not included.Following the publication of the first European blacklist of invasive alien species, there was no increase in the amount of weekly visits to the Wikipedia pages about invasive mammals. This was true both for species that were included in the list and those which were not. Rather increased search volumes were syncronous to other events that had media resonance. Our results indicate that important policymaking initiatives, do not necessarily raise public awareness about biological invasions, even when these policies, such as blacklists, are easy to understand and have a certain media coverage. We emphasize the importance of coupling them with adequate communication campaigns and also to develop communication guidelines for the media.

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“…Research has shown that success of natural history documentaries has raised awareness for many exotic species and led to vicarious connections and public engagement on par with targeted conservation campaigns (Fernández‐Bellon & Kane, 2019). An ABM allows students to select any case‐study species regardless of location and formulate hypotheses of their own choosing without a fieldwork component.…”

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“…travel to exotic locations to complete fieldwork for their undergraduate or masters thesis if funding is unavailable. Research has shown that success of natural history documentaries has raised awareness for many exotic species and led to vicarious connections and public engagement on par with targeted conservation campaigns(Fernández-Bellon & Kane, 2019). An ABM allows students to select any case-study species regardless of lo-…”

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An introduction to agent‐based models as an accessible surrogate to field‐based research and teaching

Murphy

Ciuti

Kane

2020

Ecology and Evolution

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Fieldwork encompasses any practical work taking place outside the laboratory for data collection and learning (Lock, 1998). Field data collection is essential to investigate long-term ecological processes and observe new phenomena for the first time. Moreover, university fieldwork is a central component of coursework as fieldwork-based skills including project design, surveying, data curation, and risk assessment are vital for students seeking work in a competitive job market (Pool & Sewell, 2007). Thus, fieldwork for research and teaching purposes provides essential training and experience for early-career researchers (Peacock & Bacon, 2018).

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Natural history films raise species awareness—A big data approach

Cited by 49 publications

References 32 publications

Evaluating the impact of the documentary series Blue Planet II on viewers' plastic consumption behaviors

Evaluating the impact of the documentary series Blue Planet II on viewers' plastic consumption behaviors

Blacklists do not necessarily make people curious about invasive alien species. A case study with Bayesian structural time series and Wikipedia searches about invasive mammals in Italy

An introduction to agent‐based models as an accessible surrogate to field‐based research and teaching

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