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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.11.004
	Characterising climate change discourse on social media during extreme weather events
	Roxburgh N.; Guan D.; Shin K.J.; Rand W.; Managi S.; Lovelace R.; Meng J.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0959-3780
EISSN	1872-9495
起始页码	50
结束页码	60
卷号	54 页码:50-60
英文摘要	When extreme weather events occur, people often turn to social media platforms to share information, opinions and experiences. One of the topics commonly discussed is the role climate change may or may not have played in influencing an event. Here, we examine Twitter posts that mentioned climate change in the context of three high-magnitude extreme weather events – Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Sandy and Snowstorm Jonas – in order to assess how the framing of the topic and the attention paid to it can vary between events. We also examine the role that contextual factors can play in shaping climate change coverage on the platform. We find that criticism of climate change denial dominated during Irene, while political and ideological struggle frames dominated during Sandy. Discourse during Jonas was, in contrast, more divided between posts about the scientific links between climate change and the events, and posts contesting climate science in general. The focus on political and ideological struggle frames during Sandy reflects the event's occurrence at a time when the Occupy movement was active and the 2012 US Presidential Election was nearing. These factors, we suggest, could also contribute to climate change being a more prominent discussion point during Sandy than during Irene or Jonas. The Jonas frames, meanwhile, hint at lesser public understanding of how climate change may influence cold weather events when compared with tropical storms. Overall, our findings demonstrate how event characteristics and short-term socio-political context can play a critical role in determining the lenses through which climate change is viewed. © 2018
关键词	Twitter Climate change Extreme weather Social media Public perception
英文关键词	Climate change; Extreme weather; Public perception; Social media; Twitter
学科领域	Environmental Sciences;Environmental Studies;Geography
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000458468400006
scopus关键词	climate change; extreme event; nature-society relations; perception; political ideology; social media; storm; United States
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/78763
作者单位	School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Department of Urban & Environmental Engineering, 744 Motooka Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan; Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, United States; Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom; Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Roxburgh N.,Guan D.,Shin K.J.,et al. Characterising climate change discourse on social media during extreme weather events[J],2019,54:50-60.
APA	Roxburgh N..,Guan D..,Shin K.J..,Rand W..,Managi S..,...&Meng J..(2019).Characterising climate change discourse on social media during extreme weather events.Global Environmental change,54,50-60.
MLA	Roxburgh N.,et al."Characterising climate change discourse on social media during extreme weather events".Global Environmental change 54(2019):50-60.