Egyptian women’s information seeking about climate change through social media and its relationship to their realizing of climate risks (field research)

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Public Relations and Advertising Department, . Faculty of Media for Girls. Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

Abstract

The study aimed to identify Egyptian women’s soliciting information about climate change through social media and its relationship to their realizing of climate risks, in addition to monitoring the motives of the soliciting, level of interest in different climate topics, trust in the different information’s source, different solicitation strategies (searching, browsing, censorship and monitoring), obstacles during the solicitation, indicators of risk soliciting information behavior (insufficient information, perceived threat, emotional response, subjective norms, confidence in information, ability to learn), influential factors on soliciting climate change information (cognitive, experiential, societal and cultural components). The research used the survey newspaper which applied to 400 Egyptian women. The research reached several results:
Women's soliciting information level about climate change was low, and utilitarian motives increased over ritual motives.
The Egyptian woman in the study sample used a risky and random search strategy to search for information about climate change, even though she went deeper into this information and used the method of verifying the information through various means as a strategy for control and monitoring.
The hypothesis that there are statistically significant differences between demographic variables and women's soliciting information about climate change through social media has been partially proven correct.
It has been proven that there is a statistically significant correlation between women’s soliciting information level about climate change on social media and their level of realizing risks.
It has been proven that there is a significant effect of indicators of women’s soliciting information behavior on climate change on their perception of risks.

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