COP26: Media and Twitter Attention at All-Time High
A quick update with visuals drawn from our Online Media Monitor on Climate Change (OMM) Good news: COP26 has refocused news media attention and Twitter attention to climate change to an all-time high since 2017. This is also true when dating back to 2004, according to Max Boykoff’s observatory on media coverage, which shows–based on […]
2020 on Twitter – Was there a topic besides Covid19?
After the outstanding year 2019, attention for climate change on Twitter in the past year quickly dropped to the level from the years 2018 and before. The harsh decline directly coincides with the rising worldwide attention for the “new” Corona virus later named Covid19, which caused the global pandemic the world is still struggling with. […]
2019 on Twitter: Climate activism awakening
Shortly before 2020 is over, we will have a look back at 2019 to map the climate change debate as reflected transnationally on Twitter. Compared with the two years prior, 2019 showed a particular abundance of climate-related tweets: While the total tweets count of 2018 grew by 8% from 2017, the total count of 2019 grew by 70%. Then what triggered the climate discourse so much on Twitter that year?
New publication: Scientific networks on Twitter
Scientists communicate online via social media about climate change. They engage with other scientists as well as with journalists, civil society and politicians. To what extent and how their language use varies depending on whom they talk to was examined by Stefanie Walter, Ines Lörcher and Michael Brüggemann by combining network and automated content analysis. […]
IPCC Report Trumps Trump: Climate Change on Twitter in 2018
While Donald Trump was responsible for most peaks in the Twitter debate on climate change in recent years, 2018 was different: a scientific report trumped Trump in triggering the most intensive Twitter debate related to climate change. As in previous years, we take a look at the Twitter data our Online Media Monitor (OMM) has […]
New paper published: From “Knowledge Brokers” to Opinion Makers: How Physical Presence Affected Scientists’ Twitter Use During the COP21 Climate Change Conference
The paper “From “Knowledge Brokers” to Opinion Makers: How Physical Presence Affected Scientists’ Twitter Use During the COP21 Climate Change Conference” was published in the International Journal of Communication. This study investigates the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference summit and examines scientists’ social media use by analyzing “digital traces” that scientists left on social […]
One Year of Climate Change on Twitter – One Year of Trump Arousing Attention?
Review of Twitter communication on climate change in 2017: Which events triggered tweets about climate change and to which domains do these tweets link to? The analysis of our online media monitor (OMM) reveals that the number of climate change-related tweets has risen compared to 2016. Still – and this year even more – Donald […]
Review 2016: One Year of Climate Change Debates on Twitter
Our Online Media Monitor has been collecting tweets for roughly a year now – time for a little retrospection. The tool provides ongoing monitoring of the transnational online media debate on climate change by searching for related tweets. Tweets are collected if they contain the following hashtags or key words: #climatechange OR “climate change” OR […]
First part of the Online Media Monitor online!
We are proud to announce the release of the first part of our monitor: a tool which counts all tweets related to climate change on a daily base, lists the domains most linked to in context with climate change, and shows yesterday’s most retweeted climate change tweet. Check out the tool here. The Online Media […]
Two weeks on Twitter: COP21, smoking heads and tweets from outer space
When 196 nations met in Paris for COP21, the event naturally attracted global attention. It also fostered transnational debates on Twitter. The Internet and more specifically social media enable many-to-many communication without the limitations of physically doing so, e.g having to convene in one geographical location. I wanted to find out the extent to which COP21 […]