Study on Climate Change Literacy of TV News Journalists in Taiwan

• Main Authors: LI-JIE, LIN, 林立潔
• Other Authors: 葉欣誠
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15107565381035430003

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 102 === It has been reported by IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) that global warming is a undisputed fact, and it was very likely cause by human beings. In addition, the overdevelopment of land worsens the vulnerability of environment. The right knowledge and concepts of citizens is a key to solving environmental problems. However, many studies have pointed out that the media is the main sources of environmental and scientific Information for citizens. Therefore, it is important that journalists have the expertise and the right attitude. This research targeted the TV News Journalists in Taiwan as the subjects and was primarily aimed to examine the knowledge, attitude and behavior for climate change issue. At the same time, this research analyzed the relationships among the background variables of the participants and three dimensions. And also focus on operation of media. A questionnaire was designed as the research tool of this quantitative study, and purposive sampling was employed as the sampling method, a total of 200 questionnaires were released and 145 were valid. The findings indicate: they were showed a poor level of climate change knowledge. The common problems of them in facing climate change issue, which were lack of scientific knowledge of climate change and the concept of mitigation and adaptation, poor understanding about the situation of climate change between global and Taiwan. The results indicate that the most trusted sources of information were scientific journals, experts, environmental groups (NGOs). And the TV News Journalists trusted newspapers and magazines more than TV. There were no significant effect in knowledge dimension; in attitude dimension and behavior dimension, there was a significant effect in working years. And there was no significant positive correlation between knowledge and attitude, and between knowledge and behavior intention, but there were a significant positive correlation between knowledge and behavior. People's lives were affected by climate change. People have to be consensus about solving environmental issues. However, TV news as the most important source of information for the public, the journalists must have more concerns on climate change issues. This survey shows that journalists’ climate change literacy level is poor, media organizations have to implement the climate change education.