Reading the world’s mind: Political, socioeconomic and cultural approaches to understanding worldwide Internet search queries

Jeong, Yongick; Mahmood, Reaz

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“…We assembled 15 country‐level variables divided into 7 broad categories (biodiversity, economy, demography, research, education, internet use, and presence of environmental organizations [complete list of variables and sources in Appendix S3]). We based our choices on previously published research on correlates of internet searches (Jeong & Mahmood, 2011). However, we added several correlates pertaining specifically to biodiversity and conservation.…”

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“…Internet search volumes are influenced by various social, economic, and political factors (Jeong & Mahmood, 2011). Uncovering which of these factors are more strongly correlated with interest in biodiversity and conservation can help design context-appropriate interventions to increase awareness of biodiversity and conservation where it is most needed.…”

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Evaluating global interest in biodiversity and conservation

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Vardi

Jarić

et al. 2023

Conservation Biology

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The first target of the Convention for Biological Diversity (Aichi target 1) was to increase public awareness of the values of biodiversity and actions needed to conserve it—a key prerequisite for other conservation targets. Monitoring success in achieving this target at a global scale has been difficult; however, increased digitization of human life in recent decades has made it easier to measure people's interests at an unprecedented scale and allows for a more comprehensive evaluation of Aichi target 1 than previously attempted. We used Google search volume data for over a thousand search terms related to different aspects of biodiversity and conservation to evaluate global interest in biodiversity and its conservation. We also investigated the correlation of interest in biodiversity and conservation across countries to variables related to biodiversity, economy, demography, research, education, internet use, and presence of environmental organizations. From 2013 to 2020, global searches for biodiversity components increased, driven mostly by searches for charismatic fauna (59% of searches were for mammal species). Searches for conservation actions, driven mostly by searches for national parks, decreased since 2019, likely due to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Economic inequality was negatively correlated with interest in biodiversity and conservation, whereas purchasing power was indirectly positively correlated with higher levels of education and research. Our results suggest partial success toward achieving Aichi target 1 in that interest in biodiversity increased widely, but not for conservation. We suggest that increased outreach and education efforts aimed at neglected aspects of biodiversity and conservation are still needed. Popular topics in biodiversity and conservation could be leveraged to increase awareness of other topics with attention to local socioeconomic contexts.

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Evaluating global interest in biodiversity and conservation

Caetano

Vardi

Jarić

et al. 2023

Conservation Biology

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“…One reason was that the biggest chunk of sample data was reported from Pakistan (31%) and Norway (22%). Another reason was that these countries are very different with respect to socioeconomic status, political freedom and cultural differences [61,68].…”

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A Context Centric Approach for Semantic Image Annotation and Retrieval

Elahi

Karlsen

Akselsen

2009

2009 Computation World: Future Computing, Service Computation, Cognitive, Adaptive, Content, Patterns

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I would also like to thank master student Einar, Martin and Steffen Hageland for their participation in project development and other research fellows Mehmmod and Kostas Antypas for their valuable discussions and giving me this believe that I can pursue and fulfill my research goals. Last but not the least, I would like to thank my family: my wife Sana, my mother Riffat Ara, my father and my siblings for supporting me spiritually throughout writing this thesis and my life in general.

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“…Internet search volumes are influenced by various social, economic, and political factors, such as GDP, culture, and societal openness (Jeong & Mahmood 2011). However, which of these factors drives searches for biodiversity and conservation has not yet been investigated.…”

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Evaluating global interest in biodiversity and conservation

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vardi²,

Jarić³

et al. 2022

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The first target of the Convention for Biological Diversity aimed to increase public awareness towards the values of biodiversity and actions needed to conserve it - a key prerequisite for conservation support. Nevertheless, monitoring success in achieving this target is difficult. Here, we used Google search volume data to evaluate interest in biodiversity and its conservation, and investigated drivers influencing interest across countries. We found that global interest in biodiversity increased, driven mostly by interest in charismatic fauna. However, interest in conservation actions decreased since 2019, driven mostly by reduced interest towards national parks, likely due to the 2019 pandemic. Economic inequality had a negative effect on interest in biodiversity and conservation, while purchasing power had an indirect positive effect through increased education and research. We suggest that increased outreach and education efforts towards biodiversity and conservation is needed, particularly in countries with high economic inequality and weaker education systems.

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Reading the world’s mind: Political, socioeconomic and cultural approaches to understanding worldwide Internet search queries

Cited by 4 publications

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Evaluating global interest in biodiversity and conservation

Evaluating global interest in biodiversity and conservation

A Context Centric Approach for Semantic Image Annotation and Retrieval

Evaluating global interest in biodiversity and conservation

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