Seeking information about climate change : effects of media use in an extended PRISM

Seeking information about climate change : effects of media use in an extended PRISM

This study replicates and extends the planned risk information seeking model (PRISM) in the context of impersonal risk by incorporating media use as an antecedent of risk information seeking intention. Results indicate that the model applies equally well to Singaporeans’ climate change information s...

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Main Authors: Detenber, Benjamin H., Ho, Shirley S., Lee, E. W. J., Rosenthal, Sonny
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Communication theories and models
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104536
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20217
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:This study replicates and extends the planned risk information seeking model (PRISM) in the context of impersonal risk by incorporating media use as an antecedent of risk information seeking intention. Results indicate that the model applies equally well to Singaporeans’ climate change information seeking intention as it does in the context of personal health information, suggesting that the model is generalizable across different risk and cultural contexts. Findings suggest that media use is an important source of perceived knowledge and, indirectly, sufficiency threshold, which clarifies the role of actual information seeking in risk perceptions and future information seeking.

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