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"Our research, published in Conservation Letters, analysed data from
Twitter and Wikipedia to understand how people behave after watching
nature documentaries.
Planet Earth II barely mentioned environmental issues – only 6% of the
script was dedicated to topics like climate change, and audiences
reacted accordingly. Analysing 30,000 tweets with the hashtag
#PlanetEarth2 that were posted during episode broadcasts, we saw that
only 1% mentioned topics such as species extinction or other
environmental issues.
Although the show lacked a clear conservation message, we wondered
whether it could still influence audience perceptions of nature, so we
looked at the species featured in Planet Earth II. Mammals were hugely
over-represented relative to their diversity in the wild, at the expense
of invertebrates, fish, amphibians and reptiles. More than half the
series was dedicated to mammals, although they are thought to account
for less than 4% of all animal species."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
