Green Narratives

Cooper, Kathryn E.; Nisbet, Erik C.

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“…Existing research demonstrates that film has a unique potential to promote both individual and collective climate action through a combination of imagery, narrative storytelling, and celebrity messengers in both cognitive and emotional appeals (Manzo 2017). Studies of films such as An Inconvenient Truth, Gasland, and The Age of the Stupid demonstrate this potential (Beattie et al 2011;Cooper and Nisbet 2016;Howell 2011Howell , 2014Jacobsen 2011;Manzo 2017;Nolan 2010), although longer term impacts are unclear (Howell 2014).…”

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“…Our central research question asks how audiences respond to Years episodes and how these responses affect audience motivations to take action on climate change. To this end, we assess how a diverse sample of Americans responds to Years, paying specific attention to the connection between concern, efficacy beliefs, emotion, motivation, and intentions (Ajzen 1991;Bandura 1986;Cooper and Nisbet 2016;Green and Brock 2000;Moyer-Gusé and Nabi 2010;Nabi et al 2018;Ojala 2015;Slovic and Peters 2005). Before turning to the details of this study, we briefly review the literature relating to efficacy, emotion, and stimulating action.…”

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Communicating climate change through documentary film: imagery, emotion, and efficacy

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We used qualitative in-depth interviews to evaluate the effects of a mass media climate change program on audiences' efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations, emotional responses, and motivations and intentions to address climate change. We conducted in-depth interviews with 73 participants from five US cities and three political parties who had watched episodes of the documentary television series, Season Two of Years of Living Dangerously. Eligible participants completed an in-depth interview within 24 h of viewing a select episode. Data were transcribed and then coded and analyzed using QSR NVivo 10. Weak efficacy beliefs limited intentions to enact concrete behavioral change. Outcome expectations, national-level actions, imagery, and emotional responses to stories played an important role in these processes. Explicit information about expected outcomes of various actions, and specifically successes, should be provided in order to boost efficacy and incentivize behavior.

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“…The relationship between images and engagement with messages about sustainable urban stormwater management is examined in this thesis through the lens of a dual processing model. Dual processing models, such as the elaboration likelihood model (ELM; and the heuristic-systematic model (HSM; (Chaiken, 1980), dominate the literature on message processing and attitude change Cooper & Nisbet, 2016;Dash, Meeten, & Davey, 2013;Petty & Briñol, 2015). While the two models are conceptually similar (Dash et al, 2013;Perloff, 2010;, this thesis will focus on the more widely researched ELM Perloff, 2010;.…”

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“…The finding that images, and especially emotive images, are processed quickly has implications for pro-environmental communications, as images used in this context are often highly emotive in nature (DiFrancesco & Young, 2011;. Given this practice, it is important to explore the potential for the emotions elicited by such images to influence how people process the accompanying written message (Banse, 2013;Cooper & Nisbet, 2016;Damasio, 1994;Forgas, 2008;Slovic, Finucane, Peters, & MacGregor, 2004;Zajonc, 1980). Some research has already examined the role of emotions in depth of message processing.…”

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“…The terms affect, mood, and emotions are often used interchangeably, although they are conceptually different (Batson, Shaw, & Oleson, 1992). In this thesis, affect is used as an allencompassing term for any type of emotional experience generally defined as either positive or negative (Bissing-Olson, 2015;Cooper & Nisbet, 2016;Slovic et al, 2004). The term emotion is used to denote discrete, intense, internal reactions that result from a cognitive appraisal of a stimulus and which typically exist in relatively short time spans (Cooper & Nisbet, 2016;Frijda, Kuipers, & ter Schure, 1989;Lazarus, 1991;.…”

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Images that engage communities in sustainable urban stormwater management

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This thesis investigated the effect of still images (i.e., photographs) on engagement with a pro-environmental topic. A combination of exploratory (i.e., Q-methodology) and experimental study designs were used. By drawing on the elaboration likelihood model and appraisal theories of emotion, the research tested whether discrete emotions, elicited by an image and embedded within a related written text, influence message processing and, in turn, cognitive, affective, and behavioural engagement with the message topic. Research has only begun to assess the effect of discrete emotions on depth of processing. These early findings suggest that emotions that differ with regard to the cognitive appraisal of certainty will have differential effects on depth of processing. However, this nascent research has largely focused on incidental rather than integral emotions and has not examined the role of images as the antecedent to the emotion elicited. This thesis aims to fill this gap by assessing how related, emotive images influence depth of processing and overall engagement. Chapter 2 presents the results of a Q-method study that assessed community members' (N = 23) responses to categories of context-relevant images in terms of emotional response, personal relevance, and topic congruence. The study found that although images of oceans elicited positive emotions (e.g., serenity), most participants did not perceive such I acknowledge that copyright of all material contained in my thesis resides with the copyright holder(s) of that material. Where appropriate I have obtained copyright permission from the copyright holder to reproduce material in this thesis and have sought permission from coauthors for any jointly authored works included in the thesis.

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Fictional Narratives for Environmental Sustainability Communication

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Kalch

2021

The Sustainability Communication Reader

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An increasing amount of fictional films, books or television series address themes of sustainability. This chapter defines fictional sustainability narratives and provides an overview about existing research. First, studies analyzing the content of fictional sustainable books and films are summarized. Second, we shed light on existing audience effects research about fictional sustainability narratives. Third, we give an overview of existing models that explain narrative persuasion effects of sustainability narratives. Given that models of narrative persuasion are hardly integrated in empirical research on sustainability narratives yet, we argue that a deeper understanding of narrative engagement processes may provide a useful background to specify effects of sustainability narratives in future.Many fields of sustainable development are hardly tangible for citizens in industrialized, Western countries: Climate change is somewhere else or in the future; energy, food and water are abundant; biodiversity is seemingly intact; toxins in water and air are invisible. Consequences of non-sustainable behavior are not immediate nor are they individual -they are remote, collective and at times need close scrutiny or scientific inquiry to be detected. Thus, a chronic problem of

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Green Narratives

Cited by 59 publications

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Communicating climate change through documentary film: imagery, emotion, and efficacy

Communicating climate change through documentary film: imagery, emotion, and efficacy

Images that engage communities in sustainable urban stormwater management

Fictional Narratives for Environmental Sustainability Communication

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