Public microblogging on climate change: One year of Twitter worldwide |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Earth Systems Science and Policy, University of North Dakota, Stop 9011, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9011, United States;2. The Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management, University of Florida, P.O. Box 118208, Gainesville, FL 32611-8208, United States;1. Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, United States;2. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States;3. Science Systems and Applications Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 618, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States;1. Wageningen University, The Netherlands;2. University of Copenhagen, Denmark;1. Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management, College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, 206J Florida Gym, Gainesville, FL32611, USA;2. Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management, University of Florida, USA;1. Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, 3 College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland;2. Department of Politics and Exeter Q-Step Centre, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, Devon EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom;1. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany;2. Amsterdam School of Communication Science (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, PB 15793, 1001 NG, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;3. Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539, Munich, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Public perceptions of climate change are traditionally measured through surveys. The exploding popularity of social networks, however, presents a new opportunity to research the spatiotemporal pattern of public discourse in relation to natural and/or socio-economic events. Among the social networks, Twitter is one of the largest microblogging services. The architecture of Twitter makes the question “what's happening?” the cornerstone of information exchange. This inspired the notion of using Twitter users as distributed sensors, which has been successfully employed in both the natural and social sciences. In 2012 and 2013, we collected 1.8 million tweets on “climate change” and “global warming” in five major languages (English, German, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish). We discuss the geography of tweeting, weekly and daily patterns, major news events that affected tweeting on climate change, changes in the central topics of discussion over time, the most authoritative traditional media, blogging, and the most authoritative organizational sources of information on climate change referenced by Twitter users in different countries. We anticipate that social network mining will become a major source of data in the public discourse on climate change. |
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| Keywords: | Climate change Communication Blogging Twitter Content analysis |
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