Twitter and climate change
Twitter and climate change
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DOI：
10.1111/soc4.12587
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发表时间：
2018-06-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Margolin, Drew B.
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作者：
Fownes, Jennifer R.;Yu, Chao;Margolin, Drew B.
Twitter 为研究有关气候变化的公众对话提供了一个有用的工具，气候变化是一个跨越国际边界并引发政治和科学辩论的问题。这篇综述介绍了目前已知的 Twitter 上讨论气候变化的方式，承认其优点和局限性，并提出了未来的研究领域。作为一个易于访问的平台，Twitter 允许公众表达有关气候变化的观点，并提供有关这些观点在不同时间和地点如何波动的数据。展望未来，评估气候观点的研究可以通过更好地将其与人口统计数据和其他表明推特用户所代表人口的数据联系起来来改进。推文的开放式内容提供了额外的信息，例如哪些主题与气候变化相关以及使用哪些术语来讨论它。未来的研究可以在这些结果的基础上进行更广泛的气候相关讨论。最后，研究人员正在使用 Twitter 将用户分类为不同的参与者（如政客、名人、非政府组织或公众），以了解谁发起和参与气候变化对话以及如何发起和参与。未来的研究可以考虑这些努力的效果如何，以及 Twitter 活动如何转化为线下结果。
Twitter provides a useful tool for studying public conversations about climate change, an issue that crosses international boundaries and stirs political and scientific debate. This review presents what is currently known about the way climate change is discussed on Twitter, acknowledging advantages and limitations and suggesting future areas for study. As an accessible platform, Twitter allows public expression of opinions on climate change and provides data on how these fluctuate over different times and places. Moving forward, studies assessing climate views can be improved by better linking them to demographic and other data indicating the population that Twitter users represent. The open-ended content of tweets provides additional information, such as which topics are associated with climate change and which terms are used to discuss it. Future studies can build on these results to capture a wider range of climate-related discussion. Finally, researchers are using Twitter to understand who initiates and participates in climate change dialog and how, by categorizing users as different actorssuch as politicians, celebrities, NGOs, or the general public. Future research could consider how effective these efforts are, and how Twitter activity translates to offline outcomes.