| Journal Call no. | G1.A83 |
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| Author | Hsiao, H. H. Michael. |
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| Article Title | The formation of evnironmental consciousness in Taiwan : intellectuals, media, and the public mind / H.H. Michael Hsiao and Hua-pi Tseng. |
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| Is Part Of | Asian geographer : a geographical journal on Asia and the Pacific Rim ; v.18, no.1 & 2, 1999, p.99-109, illus. |
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| Abstract | The article investigates how intellectuals and the media have helped to shape Taiwan's contemporary environmental consciousness through their discursive interactions with the public mind over the past three decades. The intellectuals have always been the most influential social class in leading new social thinking and reform, and have done so in awakening environmental consciousness. As a crucial force in bringing in sources of new information, the media, especially newspapers, have worked to inform the public of the emerging environmental problems facing Taiwan. Public opinion surveys indicate a shift in the public's environmental consciousness over the course of the 1980s and 1990s. Each of these elements -- intellectuals, media, and public opinion -- is a constituent of a new social consciousness. |
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