Research Ideation Breakfast

450 E. Lemon St,Tempe AZ 85281

17 January, 2023

Description

Ideation Breakfast Menu: Appetizer Some pre-start breakfast items are served by Samantha Munguia. Samantha will serve up an assortment of resources to help develop research proposals for sponsored funding. Special of the Month This breakfast is brought to you by the W. P. Department of Information Systems members, Kyuhan Lee and Arturo Cano Bejar. Kyuhan Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems. His research interests lie in solving real-world problems, such as fake news, hate speech and deceptive behavior, with methodological approaches including machine learning, natural language processing, network science and experiments. His research has appeared in multiple scholarly journals and conferences.Arturo Cano Bejar is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Information Systems. His research focuses on understanding the hows and whys of hate speech and personal financial decisions using SEM techniques such as CBSEM and PLSPM, and I learn about RI-CLPM and prediction with SEM. management.News distributed on social media plays an important role in educating people and raising their awareness regarding climate change issues. While, in academia, wide attention has been paid to what and how climate-change-related news should be delivered to the public, less focus has been put on the connection between the worthiness of climate change news and the public’s perception and behavior towards climate change. Drawing on a theoretical framework of news value creation, we examine how constructing newsworthy climate change posts on social media affect the public perception and behavior. Specifically, we investigate two important dimensions of news values, proximity (i.e., relevance) and superlativeness (i.e., magnitude), which are important factors for creating newsworthy news regarding climate change but often collide in a real-world setting. To elaborate, there is a trade-off between them that a focus on one aspect might lead to the neglect of the other. Thus, we examine how different configurations of proximity and superlativeness, especially those with conflicting elements (e.g., high proximity – low superlativeness; low proximity – high superlativeness), will affect climate change news values and, in turn, change public perception and behavior. Our study is expected to show how the process of creating climate-change-related news impacts the public’s perception and behavior towards climate change and, ultimately, guide practitioners (e.g., governments, news media, etc.) with effective strategies to communicate with their target audiences. Moderator Peter Byck, Professor of Practice. Peter is a Professor of practice in both the School of Sustainability and the Cronkite School of Journalism. He is also a Senior Global Futures Scientist with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. He is the director, producer and writer of carbon nation. Byck is currently in production for carbon nation 2.0 - an on-going series of short films produced in collaboration with ASU. He is also working with scientists and ranchers on soil health & soil carbon storage research via regenerative grazing.