Social mobilization of climate change: University students conserving energy through multiple pathways for peer engagement

Senbel, Maged; Ngo, Victor D.; Blair, Erik

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.01.001

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“…In particular, narrative-based approaches offer an alternative approach to adaptation planning: "[It] offers an innovative, holistic approach to a better understanding of socio-ecological systems and the improved, participatory design of local adaptation policies… it can significantly inform public engagement, deliberation and learning strategies-features of systemic adaptive governance" (Paschen & Ison, 2013, p. 1083. Youth engagement in these strategies has already revealed new paradigms for understanding vulnerability and resilience within a community (Haynes & Tanner, 2015;Peek, 2008;Tanner et al, 2009), and new digital technologies are diversifying and broadening strategies for that engagement (Corner et al, 2015;Senbel et al, 2014). #OurChangingClimate represents an alternative approach to engaging youth in climate resilience planning, exposing the nuanced and personal ways in which youth experience their built environments and understand vulnerability to climate change.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The image and descriptive text contributions to social media models the technique of photovoice, with the added benefit of allowing sharing between a much broader network that includes participants' families and peers. It also allowed the project team to meet participants 'where they are' with tools they already engage with and enjoy (Corner et al, 2015;Senbel et al, 2014).…”

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“…The works of Paschen and Ison (2013) and Walker et al (2012) on climate narrative demonstrate similar opportunities for engagement to provide new knowledge with regard to vulnerability and resilience as experienced by local community members, as does the work of Haynes and Tanner (2015) which explores the role of participatory video as an alternative methodology for community generated digital storytelling that shares youth experiences of climate-related disasters. Collectively, these engagement techniques suggest a powerful opportunity in the employment of digital and social media: social media enables the sharing of personal narratives, supports experiential learning, engages with existing online social activity of today's youth, and promotes peer-to-peer interaction (Corner & Roberts, 2014a, 2014bSenbel, Ngo, & Blair, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Engaging Youth in Climate Resilience Planning with Social Media: Lessons from #OurChangingClimate

Napawan

Simpson

Snyder

2017

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In light of the socio-ecological complexities associated with climate vulnerability, planning for community resilience will require participatory techniques to engage those most vulnerable. In particular, youth set to inherit the predicted impacts of climate change must be engaged with the processes that determine the future of their built environments. Drawing from existing literature on youth-based participatory planning and climate engagement, this paper presents an alternative process for engaging youth in climate resilience planning by employing digital technology as a tool for youth-based evaluations of existing built environments. Using the pilot project #OurChangingClimate as a case study, the authors propose a new model for engaging youth with an understanding of their communities and their resilience or vulnerability to climate change. The article details the use of social media and digital narratives as tools for participatory resilience planning and presents some of the preliminary content generated in four pilot youth workshops held from 2015-2017. Lastly, implications of youth-generated content on climate resilience planning are discussed.

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2017

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“…A different and recent study further underscores the importance of using Web 2.0 and social media technologies to generate and facilitate social pathways, and particularly normative influences on proenvironmental action [7]. In this case, the Facebook application My Everyday Earth was used to promote energy conservation among university students as well as participation in activities both online (e.g., "vlogs") and offline (e.g., a photography challenge).…”

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“…However, many citizens feel uncertain, disempowered, or ill-equipped when it comes to taking action on complex environmental issues, such as climate change [2][3][4][5][6][7]. Nonetheless, individual and collective action is needed to help preserve natural environments and mitigate environmental problems [8,9].…”

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Using Web 2.0 and Social Media Technologies to Foster Proenvironmental Action

2015

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Abstract:Research from a variety of disciplines suggests that online technologies (i.e., Web 2.0 and social media) have considerable potential for spurring proenvironmental action; however, relatively little work examines how to effectively capitalize on these communication and organization tools. This review paper describes the Technologies for Proenvironmental Action Model (TPAM), a conceptual framework that explicates how different functions of Web 2.0 and social media (i.e., informational, relational, and experiential) can generate and/or facilitate personal, social, and contextual pathways to environmentally responsible behaviors. As derived from the TPAM, the likelihood of achieving practical goals of increasing proenvironmental behaviors is enhanced when technological functions are matched to the different pathways to proenvironmental action. For example, the relational function of technologies, as exemplified by Social Networking Sites (SNSs), should be particularly effective in communicating social norms supportive of environmentally responsible behaviors. The TPAM is intended as a guide to develop novel approaches, research questions, and methodologies in leveraging Web 2.0 and social media technologies to promote proenvironmental action. Results will contribute to basic theory development and work in applied settings (e.g., local environmental organizations) in order to effectively communicate and organize with different segments of the population to increase sustainable behaviors. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 10621

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Reward‐based or meaningful gaming? A field study on game mechanics and serious games for sustainability

Whittaker

Russell‐Bennett

Mulcahy

2021

Psychology and Marketing

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Despite investigating digital gaming for commercial purposes, less scholarly attention exists on digital gaming for societal purposes such as sustainability (“serious games”). The current study investigates whether a serious game can enhance sustainability marketing outcomes, including knowledge, value‐in‐behavior, and behavioral intentions longitudinally (pre‐gameplay to post‐gameplay). Further, the study seeks to understand the influence of reward‐based and meaningful game mechanics on these sustainability marketing outcomes. We recruited 387 participants for a week‐long field study using a serious game which encourages household energy conservation. The findings show that the serious game significantly increased sustainability knowledge, value‐in‐behavior, and sustainable behavioral intention after one week. Reward‐based game mechanics (badges and trophies) significantly influenced sustainability knowledge and indirectly influenced value‐in‐behavior via sustainability knowledge, whereas reward‐based (points) and meaningful (educational messages) game mechanics had little impact. The results empirically support the conceptual model theorization—underpinned by a “do–learn–feel” behavioral learning approach—which possessed superior fit to a “do–feel–learn” rival model. This study provides novel insights regarding eliciting value‐in‐behavior longitudinally within serious games. Our multidimensional approach to assessing reward‐based game mechanics extends prior studies and suggests that higher‐tier rewards are more influential than lower‐tiered rewards to achieve sustainability marketing outcomes. We further demonstrate that reward‐based game mechanics outperform meaningful game mechanics at influencing desired outcomes, challenging existing gaming literature.

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Social mobilization of climate change: University students conserving energy through multiple pathways for peer engagement

Cited by 71 publications

References 38 publications

Engaging Youth in Climate Resilience Planning with Social Media: Lessons from #OurChangingClimate

Engaging Youth in Climate Resilience Planning with Social Media: Lessons from #OurChangingClimate

Using Web 2.0 and Social Media Technologies to Foster Proenvironmental Action

Reward‐based or meaningful gaming? A field study on game mechanics and serious games for sustainability

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