Last year we found a y-o-y decline in climate news use only in 🇺🇸. Worryingly, it’s now spread to 5/8 countries.
What’s going on? A thread 🧵
💻 Report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-chan...
🧵 Some key findings below.
💻 Report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-chan...
🧵 Some key findings below.
Last year we found a y-o-y decline in climate news use only in 🇺🇸. Worryingly, it’s now spread to 5/8 countries.
What’s going on? A thread 🧵
Last year we found a y-o-y decline in climate news use only in 🇺🇸. Worryingly, it’s now spread to 5/8 countries.
What’s going on? A thread 🧵
Drawing on online survey data from 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸 they show that mainstream news use is consistently associated with pro-climate behavioural intentions (using less energy, flying less often)
Drawing on online survey data from 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸 they show that mainstream news use is consistently associated with pro-climate behavioural intentions (using less energy, flying less often)
There is a growing concern that the negative valence in climate stories paralyses consumers & perhaps even prevents them from taking pro-environmental actions.
However, we found that climate anxiety is a robust and universal driver of pro-climate behavioral intentions.👇
There is a growing concern that the negative valence in climate stories paralyses consumers & perhaps even prevents them from taking pro-environmental actions.
However, we found that climate anxiety is a robust and universal driver of pro-climate behavioral intentions.👇
First, gen AI use has grown rapidly.
Most people have tried out gen AI at least once (61%), and 34% now use it on a weekly basis - roughly doubling from 18% a year ago.
First, gen AI use has grown rapidly.
Most people have tried out gen AI at least once (61%), and 34% now use it on a weekly basis - roughly doubling from 18% a year ago.
We aim to add a bit of nuance to what we already know about news avoidance in general, particularly on the association between avoidance and specific emotional responses to climate news.
doi.org/10.1177/1464...
We aim to add a bit of nuance to what we already know about news avoidance in general, particularly on the association between avoidance and specific emotional responses to climate news.
doi.org/10.1177/1464...
Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social survey research (n ≈ 12,000) with @richardfletcher.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social explores this.
Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social survey research (n ≈ 12,000) with @richardfletcher.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social explores this.
These are two of the questions we explore in a new report, based on fresh survey data from 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸
🔗 Full report
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🧵 Key findings in thread
These are two of the questions we explore in a new report, based on fresh survey data from 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸
🔗 Full report
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🧵 Key findings in thread
😟 Worry doesn’t push people away.
😡 Fear, anger, stress? Mostly irrelevant — except in India & Japan.
A little climate anxiety might actually keep people engaged.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849251381613
😟 Worry doesn’t push people away.
😡 Fear, anger, stress? Mostly irrelevant — except in India & Japan.
A little climate anxiety might actually keep people engaged.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849251381613
Wrote a piece on it arguing the real blockages lie in politics, power, and policy not in public scepticism.
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Wrote a piece on it arguing the real blockages lie in politics, power, and policy not in public scepticism.
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Read the report in full here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-chan...
Read the report in full here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-chan...
- @waqasejaz.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute's Oxford Climate Journalism Network
- @gingerzee.bsky.social, Chief Meteorologist & Chief Climate Correspondent, ABC News
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- @waqasejaz.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute's Oxford Climate Journalism Network
- @gingerzee.bsky.social, Chief Meteorologist & Chief Climate Correspondent, ABC News
RSVP here: coveringclimatenow.org/event/talkin...
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🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers
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🧵Findings in thread #DNR25
1. For the early risers, me @felixsimon.bsky.social @waqasejaz.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social on what variables are associated with positive/negative attitudes towards the use of generative AI in news in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇰🇦🇷🇯🇵🇫🇷
1. For the early risers, me @felixsimon.bsky.social @waqasejaz.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social on what variables are associated with positive/negative attitudes towards the use of generative AI in news in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇰🇦🇷🇯🇵🇫🇷
1. @waqasejaz.bsky.social Mary Sandford and me on the link between news use, climate anxiety and pro-environment behaviour across 8 countries.
1. @waqasejaz.bsky.social Mary Sandford and me on the link between news use, climate anxiety and pro-environment behaviour across 8 countries.
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"Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029."
#ICA25
"Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029."
#ICA25
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He will support the current author, Nic Newman, through this year's process before taking the lead role in autumn 2025
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Full announcement here
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He will support the current author, Nic Newman, through this year's process before taking the lead role in autumn 2025
Details in thread
Full announcement here
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Click 'Download the data' and see what you can find!
See the thread below for a taste of the what's inside.
Click 'Download the data' and see what you can find!
See the thread below for a taste of the what's inside.
I promise there is still a lot to unpack. Following thread gives you a glimpse of what we covered.
We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’, and a lot more (1/5).
I promise there is still a lot to unpack. Following thread gives you a glimpse of what we covered.
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