DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17031062
论文题名: #Climatechange vs. #Globalwarming: Characterizing two competing climate discourses on twitter with semantic network and temporal analyses
作者: Shi W. ; Fu H. ; Wang P. ; Chen C. ; Xiong J.
刊名: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
ISSN: 16617827
出版年: 2020
卷: 17, 期: 3 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Climate change
; Global warming
; Public discourse
; Semantic network analysis
; Temporal analysis
; Twitter
Scopus关键词: climate change
; global warming
; network analysis
; perception
; social media
; spatiotemporal analysis
; article
; climate change
; consensus
; global climate
; greenhouse effect
; perception
; temporal analysis
; weather
英文摘要: Distinct perceptions of the global climate is one of the factors preventing society from achieving consensus or taking collaborative actions on this issue. The public has not even reached an agreement on the naming of the global concern, showing preference for either “climate change” or “global warming”, and few previous studies have addressed these two competing discourses resulting from distinct climate concerns by differently linking numerous climate concepts. Based on the 6,662,478 tweets containing #climatechange or #globalwarming generated between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2018, we constructed the semantic networks of the two discourses and examined their evolution over the decade. The findings indicate that climate change demonstrated a more scientific perspective and showed an attempt to condense climate discussions rather than diffuse the topic by frequently addressing sub-topics simultaneously. Global warming triggered more political responses and showed a greater connection with phenomena. Temporal analysis suggests that traditional political discussions were gradually fading in both discourses but more recently started to revive in the form of discourse alliance in the climate change discourse. The associations between global warming and weather abnormalitiessuddenly strengthened around 2012. Climate change is becoming more dominant than global warming in public discussions. Although two discourses have shown more similarities in the rank order of important climate concepts, apparent disagreements continue about how these concepts are associated. These findings lay the groundwork for researchers and communicators to narrow the discrepancy between diverse climate perceptions. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/159485
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作者单位: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China; National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China; School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China; Strategy and Innovation Department, Rennes School of Business, Rennes, 35065, France
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Shi W.,Fu H.,Wang P.,et al. #Climatechange vs. #Globalwarming: Characterizing two competing climate discourses on twitter with semantic network and temporal analyses[J]. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,2020-01-01,17(3)