A Missed Opportunity?: NOAA’s Use of Social Media to Communicate Climate Science

Lee, Nicole; VanDyke, Matthew S.; Cummins, R. Glenn

doi:10.1080/17524032.2016.1269825

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“…To date, they have primarily examined what kind of scientific information is being shared (Mohammadi et al, 2018) and whether scientists use social media for one-way or two-way communication, that is, to distribute information or engage in dialogue (Su et al, 2017;Walter et al, 2017). This research has found that the former is more common (Lee and VanDyke, 2015;Lee et al, 2017;Su et al, 2017). Yet, analyzing with whom scientists interact on social media is important, because these communication practices reveal whether scientists still primarily communicate within their peer community, or whether they aim to engage in debate with the wider public.…”

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confidence: 82%

Scientific networks on Twitter: Analyzing scientists’ interactions in the climate change debate

Walter

Lörcher²,

Brüggemann

2019

Public Underst Sci

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Scientific issues requiring urgent societal actions—such as climate change—have increased the need for communication and interaction between scientists and other societal actors. Social media platforms facilitate such exchanges. This study investigates who scientists interact with on Twitter, and whether their communication differs when engaging with actors beyond the scientific community. We focus on the climate change debate on Twitter and combine network analysis with automated content analysis. The results show that scientists interact most intensively with their peers, but also communication beyond the scientific community is important. The findings suggest that scientists adjust their communication style to their audience: They use more neutral language when communicating with other scientists, and more words expressing negative emotions when communicating with journalists, civil society, and politicians. Likewise, they stress certainty more when communicating with politicians, indicating that scientists use language strategically when communicating beyond the scientific community.

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confidence: 82%

Scientific networks on Twitter: Analyzing scientists’ interactions in the climate change debate

Walter

Lörcher²,

Brüggemann

2019

Public Underst Sci

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“…De este modo, las redes sociales también tienen potencial para aumentar ese compromiso de la sociedad respecto al cambio climático (Katz-Kimchi & Manosevitch, 2015). Estas plataformas pueden aumentar la atención hacia estos asuntos y visibilizar acciones de protesta (Thorson, Edgerly, Kligler-Vilenchik, Xu, & Wang, 2016) o bien poniendo en contacto a usuarios, expertos y grupos de presión (Lee, VanDyke, & Cummins, 2018). De hecho, el uso de las redes sociales para la información política se ha vinculado positivamente a niveles más elevados de compromiso medioambiental (Zhang & Skoric, 2018).…”

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Emociones y difusión de noticias sobre el cambio climático en redes sociales. Influencia de hábitos, actitudes previas y usos y gratificaciones en universitarios

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Sierra

2020

RLCS

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Introducción: Esta investigación analiza la influencia que ejercen las emociones a la hora de decidir si se comparten las noticias sobre el cambio climático en redes sociales. Se estudia la función moderadora de los hábitos mediáticos, las actitudes previas y los usos y gratificaciones en esa decisión. Metodología: Se remitió un cuestionario online a una muestra de estudiantes universitarios de distintas titulaciones y centros de la Comunidad de Madrid. Los datos obtenidos fueron tratados estadísticamente según los modelos de regresión lineal simple y múltiple, de regresión logística simple y múltiple, y de regresión ordinal simple y múltiple. Resultados: El miedo y la rabia influyen en que una noticia relativa al cambio climático se comparta o no. La búsqueda de información, el consumo de noticias y el grado de preocupación previa son factores que moderan esa influencia.

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“…However, some studies indicate that the full dialogic potential of social media is yet to be fully realised by scientist and scientific institutions [e.g. Lee, VanDyke and Cummins, 2018;Yuan et al, 2017]. Other scholars [e.g.…”

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Chanting to the choir: the dialogical failure of antithetical climate change blogs

Metcalfe¹

2020

JCOM

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Blogs provide potential for publics to engage more deliberatively through dialogue in controversial science than one-way dissemination methods. This study investigated who was commenting on two antithetical climate change blogsites; how they were commenting; and the quality of their dialogue. Most research into science blogs has focused on bloggers rather than commenters. This study found that both blogsites were dominated by a small number of commenters who used contractive dialogue to promote their own views to like-minded commenters. Such blogsites are consolidating their own polarised publics rather than deliberately engaging them in climate change science. Abstract Environmental communication; Public engagement with science and technologyKeywords https://doi.

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A Missed Opportunity?: NOAA’s Use of Social Media to Communicate Climate Science

Cited by 52 publications

References 30 publications

Scientific networks on Twitter: Analyzing scientists’ interactions in the climate change debate

Scientific networks on Twitter: Analyzing scientists’ interactions in the climate change debate

Emociones y difusión de noticias sobre el cambio climático en redes sociales. Influencia de hábitos, actitudes previas y usos y gratificaciones en universitarios

Chanting to the choir: the dialogical failure of antithetical climate change blogs

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