본 연구는 청소년의 기후변화 인식이 기후변화 관여도와 기후변화에 따른 문제해결을 위한 행동에 미치는 영향을 확인하고자 하였다. 특히 기후변화에 대한 청소년의 관여는 그들이 주로 노출되는 미디어에 따라 달라질 것으로 예측하였으며, 미디어로 SNS와 매스미디어뿐만 아니라 교과서를 포함하였다. 한국청소년정책연구원이 수행한 청소년의 기후변 화에 대한 인식조사 원본 데이터를 활용하여 영향관계를 분석한 결과, SNS와 매스미디어, 교과서와 같은 미디어는 기후변화 관여도에 정(+)의 영향을 미치고 있었으며, 기후변화 관여도를 통해 기후변화 문제해결 행 동에 간접적으로 영향을 미치고 있음을 확인하였다. 이는 미디어들의 적 극적인 활용이 궁극적으로 청소년들의 기후변화에 대한 중요성 인식뿐만 아니라 행동 실천을 유발도하기 위해 필요함을 의미한다.

This study had two main objectives. We first investigated which weather phenomena people were most concerned about in the context of climate change or global warming. Then, we conducted content analysis to find which words were more commonly used with climate change or global warming. For this, we collected web data from Twitter, Naver, and Daum from April to October 2019 in the Republic of Korea. The results suggested that people were more concerned about air quality, followed by typhoons and heat waves. Because this study only considered one warm period in the year of 2019, winter-related weather phenomena such as cold wave and snowfall were not well captured. From Twitter, we were able to find wider range of terminologies and thoughts/opinions than Naver and Daum. Also, more life-relevant weather events such as typhoons and heat waves in Twitter were commonly mentioned compared to Naver and Daum. On the other hand, the comments from Naver and Daum showed relatively narrower and limited terms and thoughts/ opinions. Especially, most of the comments were influenced by headlines of articles. We found many comments about air quality and energy/economic policy. We hope this paper could provide background information about how to promote the climate change education and public awareness and how to efficiently interact with general audiences.