Climate Science Communication in Africa: Media Coverage and Public Risk Perception

摘要：

　　Issues related to climate change have gained more and more global attention. The current paper discusses the status quo of the climate science communication and possible problems in Africa from two perspectives: media coverage and public risk perception. In recent two decades, the concern about climate change in African media has been gradually growing, but it varies considerably across countries. The overall concern level is still low. The public in Africa does not have consistent cognition about the core concepts around climate change. Also, they generally lack the awareness of the climate change, and have heterogeneous risk perception. This paper studies the possible causes of the aforementioned problems and proposes preliminary suggestions accordingly.

关键词： Africa Climate change Science communication Media coverage Risk perception

作者: WANG Li

作者单位: The Center for Digitized Culture and Media, School of Political Science and Public Administration,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P.R.China, 611731;Center for West African Studies of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,P.R.China, 611731;Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated Marketing Communication, Nothwestern University, Chicago, USA, 60601

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2017 International Conference on Public Administration (12th) & International Symposium on West African Studies (1st)(2017公共管理国际会议(第十二届)暨西非研究论坛(第一届)

会议地点: 加纳

会议语种:英文

页码: 1000-1010

在线出版日期: 2017-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）