The rise of #climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Networks Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1016/j.socnet.2022.06.003

Caterina Suitner , Leonardo Badia , Damiano Clementel , Laura Iacovissi , Matteo Migliorini , Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara , Domenico Solimini , Magdalena Formanowicz , Tomaso Erseghe

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We investigate the psycho-linguistic features of the online discourse over climate change, focusing on its modifications throughout the years 2017–2019 as a result of collective actions emerging and spreading worldwide. We seek to understand the emerging connection between digital activism and the psychological processes related to its social drives. To this end, a semantic network is derived from the social platform Twitter, and its evolution is traced over time, tracking textual proxies of social identity and empowerment. Original proposals are made to identify communities and highlight the most important semantic contents of the corpus from a network perspective. These evaluations on semantic communities of related concepts further detail the shift in the rhetoric of collective actions. Finally, we explore projection of the ingroup to the future in the online discourse about climate change, which can point to developments of pro-environmental campaigns.

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在周五为未来运动时期，#气候反应#的兴起:语义网络分析

我们调查了关于气候变化的网络话语的心理语言学特征，重点关注2017年至2019年由于全球范围内出现和传播的集体行动而发生的变化。我们试图理解数字激进主义与其社会驱动力相关的心理过程之间正在出现的联系。为此，从社交平台推特衍生出一个语义网络，并跟踪其随时间的演变，跟踪社会身份和赋权的文本代理。从网络的角度提出了识别社区和突出语料库中最重要的语义内容的原始建议。这些对相关概念语义共同体的评价进一步详细说明了集体行动修辞的转变。最后，我们探讨了在关于气候变化的在线讨论中，该群体对未来的预测，这可以指出环保运动的发展。

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Social Networks Multiple-

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

12.90%

发文量

118

期刊介绍： Social Networks is an interdisciplinary and international quarterly. It provides a common forum for representatives of anthropology, sociology, history, social psychology, political science, human geography, biology, economics, communications science and other disciplines who share an interest in the study of the empirical structure of social relations and associations that may be expressed in network form. It publishes both theoretical and substantive papers. Critical reviews of major theoretical or methodological approaches using the notion of networks in the analysis of social behaviour are also included, as are reviews of recent books dealing with social networks and social structure.