TY - JOUR
T1 - Extending media system dependency theory to informational media use and environmentalism
T2 - A cross-national study
AU - Zhang, Xinzhi
AU - Zhong, Zhi Jin
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by the Major Project of The National Social Science Fund of China (Grant/Award Numbers: 19ZDA324 ) and the Faculty Start-up Grant of Hong Kong Baptist University (Grant/Award Numbers: RC-1617-1-A2 ).
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - The present study applies media system dependency theory to explore how informational media use was associated with two dimensions of environmentalism: the willingness to pay for environmental protection, and environmental citizenship (participating in pro-environmental activities). It also examines how this association varies across structural-level environmental, technological, and political factors. Multilevel models derived from two waves of the World Values Survey implemented in 68 countries revealed that informational media use was positively associated with environmentalism. The effects of informational media usage at individual level on environmentalism were further moderated by country-level factors. Information media use casted greater impacts on environmentalism when the information and communication infrastructure was better developed, or where the real-world environmental situation was worse.
AB - The present study applies media system dependency theory to explore how informational media use was associated with two dimensions of environmentalism: the willingness to pay for environmental protection, and environmental citizenship (participating in pro-environmental activities). It also examines how this association varies across structural-level environmental, technological, and political factors. Multilevel models derived from two waves of the World Values Survey implemented in 68 countries revealed that informational media use was positively associated with environmentalism. The effects of informational media usage at individual level on environmentalism were further moderated by country-level factors. Information media use casted greater impacts on environmentalism when the information and communication infrastructure was better developed, or where the real-world environmental situation was worse.
KW - Environmental citizenship
KW - Environmentalism
KW - Media system dependency theory
KW - News media
KW - The willingness to pay
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082120155&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tele.2020.101378
DO - 10.1016/j.tele.2020.101378
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85082120155
SN - 0736-5853
VL - 50
JO - Telematics and Informatics
JF - Telematics and Informatics
M1 - 101378
ER -