Cyber-echoes of climate crisis: Unraveling anthropogenic climate change narratives on social media

IF 3.7 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Or Elroy , Nadejda Komendantova , Abraham Yosipof
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Abstract

Social media platforms have a key role in spreading narratives about climate change, and therefore it is crucial to understand the discussion about climate change in social media. The discussion on anthropogenic climate change in general, and social media specifically, has multiple different narratives. Understanding the discourses can assist efforts of mitigation, adaptation, and policy measures development. In this work, we collected 333,635 tweets in English about anthropogenic climate change. We used Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning methods to embed the semantic meaning of the tweets into vectors, cluster the tweets, and analyze the results. We clustered the tweets into four clusters that correspond to four narratives in the discussion. Analyzing the behavioral dynamics of each cluster revealed that the clusters focus on the discussion of whether climate change is caused by humans or not, scientific arguments, policy, and conspiracy. The research results can serve as input for media policy and awareness-raising measures on climate change mitigation and adaptation policies, and facilitating future communications related to climate change.

气候危机的网络回声:解读社交媒体上的人为气候变化叙事
社交媒体平台在传播有关气候变化的叙述方面发挥着关键作用,因此,了解社交媒体中有关气候变化的讨论至关重要。关于人为气候变化的讨论,具体到社交媒体,有多种不同的说法。了解这些论述有助于减缓、适应和政策措施的制定。在这项工作中,我们收集了 333,635 条关于人为气候变化的英文推文。我们使用自然语言处理(NLP)和机器学习方法将推文的语义嵌入向量,对推文进行聚类,并对结果进行分析。我们将推文聚类为四个群组,与讨论中的四个叙述相对应。通过分析每个聚类的行为动态,我们发现这些聚类主要集中在气候变化是否由人类造成、科学论证、政策和阴谋的讨论上。研究成果可作为媒体政策和气候变化减缓与适应政策宣传措施的参考,并促进未来与气候变化相关的传播。
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Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Environmental Science-General Environmental Science
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