Seeking information about enhanced geothermal systems: The role of fairness, uncertainty, systematic processing, and information engagement intentions

Lu, Hang; Song, Hwanseok; McComas, Katherine A.

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2021.01.031

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“…This is especially true for the relationships between the predictors of information seeking, which we measured at Wave 1, and between health information seeking and health behaviors, which we measured at Wave 2. Future research could employ an experimental design that tests the causality of the proposed relationships (e.g., Lu et al, 2021). In addition, the interval between the two waves was relatively short.…”

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The Search Between Two Worlds: Motivations for and Consequences of U.S.-Dwelling Chinese’s Use of U.S. and Chinese Media for COVID-19 Information

Chu

2022

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to inflict damage throughout the world, some minority groups are bearing a disproportionate share of its impacts. We concentrated on one such group, U.S.-dwelling Chinese, who have had to cope with challenges related to acculturation, health, safety, and racism. Recognizing that health information seeking was an essential step in helping maintain and improve health behaviors, we conducted a two-wave longitudinal study ( N = 1,284) to examine the various factors predicting U.S.-dwelling Chinese’s use of U.S. and Chinese media for COVID-19 information as well as the consequences of their information seeking. Overall, we found that acculturation, accuracy (i.e., information insufficiency) and defense (i.e., conspiratorial beliefs) motivations, trust in media, and perceived information gathering capacity played a key role in explaining information seeking from an intercultural viewpoint, and that the use of U.S. and Chinese media was associated with different health behaviors. These findings contribute to theory and practice in a variety of ways.

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The Search Between Two Worlds: Motivations for and Consequences of U.S.-Dwelling Chinese’s Use of U.S. and Chinese Media for COVID-19 Information

Chu

2022

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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“…In response to signals about their physical condition, people often need more accurate health information to counter disease threats or stay healthy. Hang Lu et al found a positive impact of risk response on the increasing information need and information engagement intentions to reduce uncertainty [ 54 ]. Their results are somewhat similar to our study.…”

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Exploring Users’ Health Behavior Changes in Online Health Communities: Heuristic-Systematic Perspective Study

Gong

Jiang

Wu³

et al. 2022

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(1) Background: With the continuous advancement of internet technology, use of the internet along with medical service provides a new solution to solve the shortage of medical resources and the uneven distribution of available resources. Online health communities (OHCs) that emerged at this historical moment have flourished with various advantages, such as being free from location and time constraints. Understanding users’ behavior changes via engagement in OHCs is necessary to support the development of internet medicine and promote public health. (2) Methods: The hypotheses of our research model were developed based on the protective action decision model (PADM) and heuristic-systematic model (HSM). A questionnaire was developed with seven constructs through previous studies and verified using a presurvey. Our survey respondents are online health community users. We used structural equation modelling to test the research hypotheses. (3) Results: The results of the analysis of 290 valid samples showed that the research model fit the data collected well. The perceived benefits (PB) positively affect information needs (IN) (beta = 0.280, p < 0.001, R2 = 0.252), thereby promoting users’ engagement in OHCs (EOHCs) (beta = 0.353, p < 0.001, R2 = 0.387); EOHCs has a significant positive impact on health behavior change (HBC) (beta = 0.314, p < 0.001), and it also significantly positively affects users’ health behavior change through systematic processing indirectly (beta = 0.252, p < 0.001, R2 = 0.387). (4) Conclusions: Our study offers support for the usefulness of the PADM and HSM in explaining users’ health behavior changes. For practitioners, this study introduces influence processes as policy tools that managers can employ for health-promoting with mHealth.

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“…In general, the field seems to expect that the public will process information about AWE (e.g., costs and benefits) in an entirely rational manner. In contrast, existing research has shown that subjective factors, such as political orientation and emotional reactions to energy technologies, affect which information people seek about energy-related topics and how they evaluate it [88][89][90]. Thus, the assumption that information processing will occur without any motivational biases appears to have led to an overly optimistic perspective on public responses to AWE.…”

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“…For example, potential negative or positive impacts on tourism, marine wildlife, the fishing industry, and the recreational activity sector (i.e., boating, yachting, surfing, fishing) are often discussed [42,86,87]. It should be noted that the AWE industry is planning to develop floating offshore plants, which have less of an impact on marine wildlife [11,83,88]. Therefore, it remains to be seen whether public responses differ between on-and offshore AWE developments and, if so, why.…”

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Public Responses to Airborne Wind Energy: A Literature Review

Schmidt

Vries

Renes

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Airborne wind energy (AWE) systems use tethered flying devices to harvest higher-altitude winds to produce electricity. For a successful deployment of these systems, it is crucial to understand how the public perceives them. If public concerns about the technology are not taken seriously, implementation could be delayed or, in some cases, prevented, resulting in increased costs for project developers and a lower contribution of the sector to renewable energy targets. This literature review assessed the current state of knowledge on public responses to AWE. An exhaustive literature search led to the identification of 40 relevant publications that were reviewed. The literature assumed that the safety, visibility, acoustic emissions, ecological impacts, and the siting of AWE systems shape public responses to the technology. The reviewed literature views people’s responses to AWE very optimistically but lacks scientific evidence to back up its claims. It seems to overlook that the influence of AWE’s characteristics (e.g., visibility) on public responses will also depend on a range of situational and psychological factors (e.g., people’s general attitude towards AWE, the public’s trust in project developers). Therefore, empirical social scientific research is needed to increase the field’s understanding of public responses to AWE and thereby facilitate deployment.

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Seeking information about enhanced geothermal systems: The role of fairness, uncertainty, systematic processing, and information engagement intentions

Cited by 15 publications

References 32 publications

The Search Between Two Worlds: Motivations for and Consequences of U.S.-Dwelling Chinese’s Use of U.S. and Chinese Media for COVID-19 Information

The Search Between Two Worlds: Motivations for and Consequences of U.S.-Dwelling Chinese’s Use of U.S. and Chinese Media for COVID-19 Information

Exploring Users’ Health Behavior Changes in Online Health Communities: Heuristic-Systematic Perspective Study

Public Responses to Airborne Wind Energy: A Literature Review

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