Who speaks for climate change in China? Evidence from Weibo

Liu, John Chung‐En; Zhao, Bo

doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1883-y

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“…For instance, this research revealed that people who were directly affected by the severe weather conditions demonstrated significant interest in them, more than people in other places. This indirectly contrasts to another study [29], where the discussions about climate change were found to be controlled by the state, enacted by state-sponsored actors and media, and remained limited to a theoretical discussion about climate change detached from the larger political context. This paper also finds that when generally discussing a natural disaster, such as El Niño, the popular tweets tend to be negative and objective.…”

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“…Wang, Ye, and Tsou employed spatial-temporal analysis, network analysis and content analysis on wildfire-related Twitter activities [13]. Liu and Zhao [29] examined the climate change on Weibo, the premier Chinese social networking site, during the period around the Paris Climate Summit in 2015. The results of the study indicated that in China at least, state media and international actors dominated the chatter, while NGOs and public intellectuals remained noticeably absent.…”

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A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of El Niño on Twitter: Spatial, Social, Temporal, and Semantic Perspectives

Wei

2019

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Social media platforms have become a critical virtual community where people share information and discuss issues. Their capabilities for fast dissemination and massive participation have placed under scrutiny the way in which they influence people’s perceptions over time and space. This paper investigates how El Niño, an extreme recurring weather phenomenon, was discussed on Twitter in the United States from December 2015 to January 2016. A multiple-dimensional analysis, including spatial, social, temporal, and semantic perspectives, is conducted to comprehensively understand Twitter users’ discussion of such weather phenomenon. We argue that such multi-dimensional analysis can reveal complicated patterns of Twitter users’ online discussion and answers questions that cannot be addressed with a single-dimension analysis. For example, a significant increase in tweets about El Niño was noted when a series of rainstorms inundated California in January 2016. Some discussions on natural disasters were influenced by their geographical distances to the disasters and the prevailing geopolitical environment. The popular tweets generally discussing El Niño were overall negative, while tweets talking about how to prepare for the California rainstorms were more positive.

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A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of El Niño on Twitter: Spatial, Social, Temporal, and Semantic Perspectives

Wei

2019

IJGI

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“…During the last decade, there has been an increase in the number of studies about climate change and social media. Scholars have, for example, concentrated on interpersonal communication and conflicts (Olausson, 2019); how users share information about climate change and the role of psychology (Veltri & Atanasova, 2017) on the viral dimensions (Hansen et al, 2011) of climate-change communication; the hierarchical character of climate-change discourse (Liu & Zhao, 2017); and the issues of echo chambers and polarisation (Anderson & Huntington, 2017). When it comes to extreme weather and climate change, most contributions still focus on traditional mass media (Berglez & Lidskog, 2019;Cordner & Schwarz, 2018;Morehouse & Sonnett, 2010, etc.).…”

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Extreme weather and climate change: social media results, 2008–2017

Berglez

Al-Saqaf

2020

Environmental Hazards

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The link between extreme weather and climate change is being highlighted in ever more countries. Increased public understanding of this issue is essential for policymaking, both in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation. As social media are becoming central to the exchange of information in society, the purpose is to analyze what generates intensified attention to the connection between extreme weather and climate change in digital communication. This is done by examining periods of intensified co-occurrence of mentions of extreme weather and climate change on English-language Twitter (N = 948,993). Our quantitative analysis suggests that during the period 2008-2017 the years 2010, 2011 and 2017 exhibit a considerable increase in 'causality discourse', i.e. tweets that articulate the topic of climate change + extreme weather, in comparison with earlier years. These periods of significant growth are interpreted as involving dynamic relationships between three factors, namely mediated highlighting of previous or ongoing extreme-weather events (extreme-event factor); connection of extreme weather to climate change by traditional media or other intermediaries (media-driven science communication factor); and actions of individual users (digital-action factor). Through a qualitative discourse analysis, how these factors jointly generate increasing attention to 'causality discourse' is more closely explored for the case of 2017.

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“…In China, NGOs work to situate the impacts of climate change within a larger national discourse, moving the threat of climate change as solely as externalized to one that will affect all Chinese (Liu & Zhao, 2017). In Africa, NGOs have tailored climate change messaging to reflect the realities of increased agricultural hardships and social vulnerabilities stemming from a warming planet, working to educate its populace on strategies for adaptation to climate change effects (Ford et al, 2015).…”

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Social Media and Environmental Activism: Framing Climate Change on Facebook by Global NGOs

Blomberg

Seo

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Science Communication

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Analyzing Facebook content produced by 289 global climate nonprofits from 18 countries, this study investigates these NGOs’ framing of climate change. Of the three protest frames, diagnostic was most popular. Of the three aspects of climate change, including impact, action, and efficacy, action was used most frequently, while efficacy was the least common. Messages refer to effects at the present time. NGOs from developed countries are more likely than those from developing nations to discuss climate actions. Climate impacts are more likely to appear in these NGOs’ persuasive messages than efficacy. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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Who speaks for climate change in China? Evidence from Weibo

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of El Niño on Twitter: Spatial, Social, Temporal, and Semantic Perspectives

A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of El Niño on Twitter: Spatial, Social, Temporal, and Semantic Perspectives

Extreme weather and climate change: social media results, 2008–2017

Social Media and Environmental Activism: Framing Climate Change on Facebook by Global NGOs

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