Climate change on Twitter: Content, media ecology and information sharing behaviour

Veltri, Giuseppe; Atanasova, Dimitrinka

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“…Temperature, pressure and light intensity collected by huge crowds of smart phone owners tagged with high‐precision GPS depict an exquisite map (Overeem et al , ; Sosko & Dalyot, ). This smart phone‐embedded device‐based collection method benefits from promising geographic resolution, deployment and mobility. Social networks: People's evolution of attitude towards long‐term meteorological phenomena and short‐term emergency communications can be extracted by mining their opinions from social network sites (SNS) (Liu & Zhao, ; Sisco et al , ; Veltri & Atanasova, ; Rossi et al , ). As free communication platforms, social networks accommodate different angles and attitudes expressed by people of different backgrounds and roles.…”

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“…The mechanisms behind different types of weather are very complicated and almost beyond the control of human beings. Thus, the observation, forecasting as well as alerting and responding to these weather situations (particularly severe weather) play significant roles in meteorological services (Schafer, ; Veltri & Atanasova, ). To help measure and predict weather and climate change, vast amounts of manpower and funds have been invested into meteorological and other related research areas, which has brought meteorological research into an era of ‘big data’(Greengard, ).…”

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Social weather: A review of crowdsourcing‐assisted meteorological knowledge services through social cyberspace

Zhu

Zhang

et al. 2019

Geoscience Data Journal

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Crowdsourcing has significantly motivated the development of meteorological services. Starting from the beginning of 2010s and highly motivating after 2014, crowdsourcing-driven meteorological services have evolved from a single collection and observation of data to the systematic acquisition, analysis and application of these data. In this review, by focusing on papers and databases that have combined crowdsourcing methods to promote or implement meteorological knowledge services, we analysed the relevant literature in three dimensions: data collection, information analysis and meteorological knowledge applications. First, we selected the potential data sources for crowdsourcing and discussed the characteristics of the collected data in four dimensions: consciousness, objectiveness, mobility and multidisciplinary.Second, based on the purpose of these studies and the extent of utilizing data as well as knowledge, we categorize the crowdsourcing-based meteorological analysis into three levels: relationship discovery, knowledge generalization and systemized service. Third, according to the application scenario, we discussed the applications that have already been put into use, and we suggest current challenges and future research directions. These previous studies show that the use of crowdsourcing in social space can expand the coverage as well as enhance the performance of meteorological 62 | ZHU et al.

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Social weather: A review of crowdsourcing‐assisted meteorological knowledge services through social cyberspace

Zhu

Zhang

et al. 2019

Geoscience Data Journal

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“…O grande volume de links encontrados reforça a ideia de que o Twitter é bastante usado para partilha e atualização de informação (Recuero, 2009;Veltri & Atasanova, 2015).…”

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As mudanças climáticas no Twitter: a ascendência da mídia e da política

Balbé

Carvalho

2017

Desenvolv. Meio Ambiente

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Artigo recebido em 30 de outubro de 2016, versão final aceita em 1 de fevereiro de 2017. RESUMO:A 21ª Conferência das Partes (COP21) da Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças no Clima foi apontada como a mais promissora reunião para um acordo global de combate aos efeitos das mudanças climáticas e redução da emissão de gases de efeito estufa. Este artigo analisa a comunicação sobre as mudanças climáticas no ambiente online durante o período da Conferência. Os temas debatidos nas redes sociais são suscetíveis a afetar o debate de forma ampla e trazem importantes informações a respeito da opinião pública e de percepções sobre as mudanças climáticas (Williams et al., 2015). Para este fim, o trabalho foca-se na popular rede social Twitter, que tem sido apontada como um termômetro da percepção pública (Brown & Wake, 2015). O Twitter tem mais de 310 milhões de utilizadores ativos por mês, dos quais 79% estão fora dos Estados Unidos da América, o que possibilita analisar outros contextos e fomentar a investigação em idiomas sub investigados, como o espanhol e o português. Lança-se um primeiro olhar sobre os usos e conteúdos publicados no Twitter nas línguas mencionadas visando responder às seguintes questões: Que tipo de conteúdos são mais populares no Twitter sobre mudanças climáticas? Qual a linguagem (palavras e nomes) utilizada para se debater o tema? Até que ponto é que a mídia tradicional é referência relevante no contexto da comunicação sobre as mudanças climáticas na rede social? Quem são os atores que formam esta rede e quais são os mais influentes? Conclui-se, entre outros aspectos, que entre os atores da rede se destacam diversos políticos e que a mídia é referência importante de informação nesta rede social. Nos dados em língua portuguesa, constatou-se um nível de atividade muito elevado dos cidadãos, que dominaram a produção de conteúdos sobre a COP21.Palavras-chave: mudanças climáticas; comunicação; redes sociais; Twitter. ABSTRACT:The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was identified as the most promising summit for a global agreement aiming to combat the effects of climate change and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. This article analyses online communications about climate change during the Conference. The subjects discussed in social networks are likely to affect public debates and provide important information regarding public opinion and perceptions of climate change (Williams et

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“…We chose to exclude retweets as the study of original tweets has received little research attention [Veltri and Atanasova, 2015] and we are interested in examining this "first degree of sharing" [p. 3]. The stream of data generated during this timeframe was further analysed to ascertain the nature and interest in politically relevant general and scientific topics by the public and the level of scientific discussion in the political debate [Beacco et al, 2002].…”

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Science, Twitter and election campaigns: tracking #auspol in the Australian federal elections

McKinnon¹,

Semmens²,

Moon³

et al. 2016

JCOM

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Social media is increasingly being used by science communicators, journalists and government agencies to engage in discourse with a range of publics. Despite a growing body of literature on Twitter use, the communication of science via Twitter is comparatively under explored. This paper examines the prominence of scientific issues in political debate occurring on Twitter during the 2013 and 2016 Australian federal election campaigns. Hashtracking of the umbrella political hashtag auspol was used to capture tweets during the two campaign periods. The 2013 campaign was particularly relevant as a major issue for both parties was climate change mitigation, a controversial and partisan issue. Therefore, climate change discussion on Twitter during the 2013 election was used as a focal case study in this research. Subsamples of the 2013 data were used to identify public sentiment and major contributors to the online conversation, specifically seeking to see if scientific, governmental, media or ‘public' sources were the more dominant instigators. We compare the prominence of issues on Twitter to mainstream media polls over the two campaign periods and argue that the potential of Twitter as an effective public engagement tool for science, and for politicised scientific issues in particular, is not being realised.

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Climate change on Twitter: Content, media ecology and information sharing behaviour

Cited by 152 publications

References 37 publications

Social weather: A review of crowdsourcing‐assisted meteorological knowledge services through social cyberspace

Social weather: A review of crowdsourcing‐assisted meteorological knowledge services through social cyberspace

As mudanças climáticas no Twitter: a ascendência da mídia e da política

Science, Twitter and election campaigns: tracking #auspol in the Australian federal elections

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