The Climate Change Generation: Vocal but Overconfident? How Young Adults Who Overestimate Their Climate Knowledge Use Social Media and Engage With Others

Research suggests that social media can cause users, especially young adults, to overestimate their knowledge about climate change. Knowledge overestimation may then lead users to communicate more frequently about climate change with others. We test these hypotheses with a four-wave panel survey of...

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Published in:Social Media + Society
Main Authors: Niels G. Mede, Lara Kobilke, Nayla Fawzi, Thomas Zerback
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2025-05-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251341792