Gómez-Casillas Amalia, Gómez Márquez Victoria
Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED-CERCA), Carrer de Ca n'Altayó, Edifici E-2, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
Facultad de Comunicación (FCOM), Universidad de Montevideo (UM) - Sede Central, Calle Prudencio de Pena 2544, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Popul Environ. 2023;45(2):7. doi: 10.1007/s11111-023-00417-4. Epub 2023 May 1.
Using data from the Latinobarómetro (Latin Barometer) survey of 2017 to analyze the effect of social network site usage on climate change awareness in 18 Latin American countries, this article makes three contributions. First, it offers results on the socioeconomic determinants of climate awareness in a region of the world where there is scant published evidence in this regard. Second, it shows the effect of social media consumption on climate change awareness by assessing the role of each of the most popular sites: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Tumblr. Third, it assesses the effects of multi-platform consumption. The results show that YouTube has the strongest and most robust positive and statistically significant effect on climate change awareness, followed by Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp, while being a multi-platform user also has a positive and statistically significant effect on climate change awareness. The implications of these findings for understanding the role of social media in the development of environmental awareness are discussed.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11111-023-00417-4.
本文利用2017年拉丁晴雨表(Latin Barometer)调查的数据,分析社交网站使用对18个拉丁美洲国家气候变化意识的影响,做出了三点贡献。第一,在世界上这方面公开证据稀少的一个地区,提供了气候意识社会经济决定因素的结果。第二,通过评估每个最受欢迎的网站(YouTube、Facebook、Instagram、Twitter、LinkedIn、WhatsApp、Snapchat和Tumblr)的作用,展示了社交媒体使用对气候变化意识的影响。第三,评估了多平台使用的影响。结果表明,YouTube对气候变化意识具有最强且最稳健的正向且具有统计学意义的影响,其次是Instagram、Twitter和WhatsApp,而成为多平台用户对气候变化意识也具有正向且具有统计学意义的影响。讨论了这些发现对于理解社交媒体在环境意识发展中作用的意义。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s11111-023-00417-4获取的补充材料。