399338

"The effectiveness of short videos (Reels) on social media in raising awareness about climate change: A case study on Egyptian Gen-Z & millennial"

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Last updated: 09 Mar 2025

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Digital Media and Visual Communication

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to identify "The effectiveness of short videos (Reels) on social media in raising awareness of climate change". This research uses a quantitative descriptive analysis methodology through a questionnaire to collect data, and it was conducted on (400) respondents from both Gen-Z and Millennial who are living in Egypt. The researcher depended on media dependency theory in the theoretical framework in addition to proposing a scale for measuring the richness of climate change reels on social media regarding Media Richness Theory. Results showed that the medium richness factors got the highest rank (89.4%) in terms of the richness factors in climate change reels, followed by the richness factors related to the presenter (84.2%). The results also revealed that exposure density to climate change reels on social media is positively related to raising awareness of climate change issues. And there is a correlation between the richness of climate change reels on social media and raising awareness of climate change issues.

DOI

10.21608/jmis.2024.337976.1056

Keywords

reels, social media platforms, Climate Change, Gen-Z & millennial

Authors

First Name

Dina

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

Mansour

Affiliation

RTV department , Faculty of mass communication - Cairo university

Email

dinamansour804@gmail.com

City

cairo

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Volume

3

Article Issue

10

Related Issue

51998

Issue Date

2024-12-01

Receive Date

2024-11-20

Publish Date

2024-12-01

Page Start

1

Page End

60

Print ISSN

2812-6270

Online ISSN

2812-6289

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2,504

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Publication Title

Journal of Media and Interdisciplinary Studies

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https://jmis.journals.ekb.eg/

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"The effectiveness of short videos (Reels) on social media in raising awareness about climate change: A case study on Egyptian Gen-Z & millennial"

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Article

Created At

25 Feb 2025