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Item American Adolescents’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Sources of Information on Climate Change(2020) Roser-Renouf, Connie; Maibach, Edward; Myers, TeresaThe past several years have witnessed a dramatic increase in young people’s activism on climate change, accompanied by calls for society to act more aggressively to protect their futures. To better understand what young people think and feel about climate change, we surveyed American adolescents, asking what they know, feel and believe about the issue, what questions they have about it, and where they are obtaining their information. This report summarizes the results of the survey and is intended to support efforts to inform and educate American youth about climate change.Item American Adolescents’ Responses to NASA’s Climate Change Website(2020) Roser-Renouf, Connie; Myers, Teresa; Maibach, EdwardThis is the second of two reports about American adolescents and climate change. In the first report, we described teens’ knowledge, attitudes, and sources of climate change information. In this report, we analyze their responses to one important source of this information –the NASA website climate.NASA.gov. The NASA website is one of the primary sources provided by the federal government to inform the public on the issue of climate change. In this report we assess how adolescents feel about the website, how it affects their climate change knowledge and attitudes, and whether some adolescents are more responsive to the website than others, based on their age, gender and interest in science.Item Americans’ Views of Climate Change, NASA, and NASA’s Climate Website(2020) Myers, Teresa; Roser-Renouf, Connie; Maibach, EdwardThis report summarizes the results of a nationally representative survey of American adults conducted in 2018. The report’s findings are intended to support NASA’s efforts to inform and educate the American public on the issue of climate change. The results detail the information users are seeking on climate change, their evaluations of the clarity and usefulness of the website climate.NASA.gov, and the impacts the website has on visitors’ climate change knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, and on their views of NASA and its earth science research.Item Class, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Mexican Film and Television Melodrama(2020-03-27) Autrey, BonitaThis study examines narratives of social identity in two media genres of Mexican melodrama: the most popular telenovela of all time, Maria del Barrio (Angelii Nesma Medina, México, 1995-1996), and the arthouse blockbuster Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, México, 2018). Although critics have long disparaged melodrama as uncritical, I argue that María del Barrio and Roma turn this genre’s focus on the family as a critical exposition of class, gender and ethnic disparities in Mexican life.Item Climate Matters in the Newsroom: A 2020 Census Survey of Society of Environmental Journalists Members(Center for Climate Change Communication, 2020-09) Maibach, Edward W.; Yagatich, William A.; Borth, Amanda C.; Campbell, Eryn; Patzer, Shaelyn M.; Timm, Kristin; Craig, Richard T.This report provides the initial findings from an online census survey of Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) members. SEJ is the only North American membership association of professional journalists dedicated to enhancing and extending coverage of environment-related issues. SEJ’s mission is to strengthen the quality, reach, and viability of journalism across all media platforms to advance the public’s understanding of environmental issues.Item Climate Matters: A 2020 Census Survey of Television Weathercasters in the United States(George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, 2020-09) Maibach, Edward W.; Yagatich, William A.; Campbell, Eryn; Borth, Amanda C.; Patzer, Shaelyn M.; Timm, Kristin; Craig, Richard T.This report provides the initial findings from an online census survey of U.S.-based television weathercasters. The survey was conducted to gain insights for the continued refinement of Climate Matters, a National Science Foundation-funded collaboration between George Mason University, Climate Central, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the American Meteorological Society (AMS)—the aim of which is to enable local, science-based reporting about climate change by TV weathercasters. In this survey, we explored TV weathercasters’ views of climate change, their experiences and interest in covering climate change, and their familiarity with and use of Climate Matters reporting resources.Item Hugh S. Fullerton, the Black Sox Scandal, and the Ethical Impulse in Sports Writing(1997-05) Klein, Steven Mark; Lacy, Stephen; Rosenzweig, RoyHistory is the study of the past in all its splendid messiness, writes the historian Simon Schama. And for a baseball fan, what more splendid mess could there be than the crooked World Series of 1919? F. Scott Fitzgerald, no great baseball fan despite his friendship with Ring Lardner, found the Black Sox scandal to be the perfect metaphor for American disillusionment after World War I. Fitzgerald wrote his great American novel, The Great Gatsby, with its memorable references to the fix, within easy memory of the scandal. Fitzgerald understood that the illegitimacy of the defining event of the Great American Pastime represented the ultimate deception of American popular culture that is so well articulated in the mythology, if not the reality, of baseball. Although most sportswriters of the day had a sense that the 1919 World Series between the heavily favored Chicago White Sox and underdog Cincinnati Reds was not on the square, only one among them had the courage at the time to write it. Hugh S. Fullerton, then 46-years old and considered among the leading baseball writers of his era, wrote the story that Lardner, given his cynicism, and Grantland Rice, in the sweetness of his nature and style, would not and could not write. “The fake world series of 1919 produced some of the worst newspaper reporting that the American press ever has been guilty of, and while all of us who were detailed to cover the show were not fired for missing the greatest sport story in 20 years is something that I have never understood. We were terrible,” wrote columnist Westbrook Pegler from the more convenient perspective of 1932. Yet today, we celebrate Lardner, revere Rice and barely remember Fullerton, who may have been more respected than either in their day.Item Informal Science Education on the NASA Climate Change Website: Addressing the Challenge of Educating Diverse Audiences.(2020) Roser-Renouf, Connie; Myers, Teresa; Maibach, EdwardItem Understanding Electronic Medical Record Adoption in the United States: Communication and Sociocultural Perspectives(JMIR Publications, 2013-03-26) Nambisan, Priya; Kreps, Gary L.; Polit, StanBackground: This paper adopts a communication and sociocultural perspective to analyze the factors behind the lag in electronic medical record (EMR) adoption in the United States. Much of the extant research on this topic has emphasized economic factors, particularly, lack of economic incentives, as the primary cause of the delay in EMR adoption. This prompted the Health Information Technology on Economic and Clinical Health Act that allow financial incentives through the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services for many health care organizations planning to adopt EMR. However, financial incentives alone have not solved the problem; many new innovations do not diffuse even when offered for free. Thus, this paper underlines the need to consider communication and sociocultural factors to develop a better understanding of the impediments of EMR adoption. Objective: The objective of this paper was to develop a holistic understanding of EMR adoption by identifying and analyzing the impact of communication and sociocultural factors that operate at 3 levels: macro (environmental), meso (organizational), and micro (individual). Methods: We use the systems approach to focus on the 3 levels (macro, meso, and micro) and developed propositions at each level drawing on the communication and sociocultural perspectives. Results: Our analysis resulted in 10 propositions that connect communication and sociocultural aspects with EMR adoption. Conclusions: This paper brings perspectives from the social sciences that have largely been missing in the extant literature of health information technology (HIT) adoption. In doing so, it implies how communication and sociocultural factors may complement (and in some instances, reinforce) the impact of economic factors on HIT adoption.