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

• Main Authors: HO, Shirley S., DETENBER, Benjamin H., ROSENTHAL, Sonny, LEE, Edmund W. J.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: climate change; information insufficiency; media; risk information seeking; Singapore; Communication Technology and New Media; Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/199; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1198/viewcontent/ho_et_al_2014_seeking_information_about_climate_change_effects_of_media_use_in_an_extended_prism.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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.