Measuring the level of public understanding of total solar eclipse from the mass media: Palembang as sample

International Symposium on Sun, Earth, and Life

物理学;天文学;生物科学

Purwati, F.G.^1 ; Ekawanti, N.^1 ; Luthfiandari^1 ; Premadi, P.W.^1

Astronomy Department, Institut Teknologi Bandung, 40132, Indonesia^1

关键词: Information access;    Mass media;    Multiple choice;    Public awareness;    Public understanding;    Scientific content;    Strategic role;    Total solar eclipse;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/771/1/012026/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/771/1/012026

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The Total Solar Eclipse (TSE) on the 9thMarch 2016 received a huge attention from the mass media. Some of them intensively write articles about it even months before the TSE day. As we know media plays strategic role not only in raising public awareness but also interest. The aim of this project is to study the relation between the number of accesses to the media information and how well public learned the information delivered by the media. We prepared questionnaire consisting of seven semi-multiple choices on how public got information about TSE. We gave them choices of what they had heard to measure their basic understanding of TSE. Furthermore we add two "wrong" choices in the last questions to identify less serious respondents. We analyze 60 respondents of Palembang who visited Ampera bridge area. Our result shows no correlation between the number of information access and the level of understanding about TSE. We also found that local media did not provide the scientific content of TSE as well as the national media.