Climate Change Communication and the Internet

ISBN-13: 9780367075828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 128 str.

Nelya Koteyko; Brigitte Nerlich; Iina Hellsten

Opis

Climate Change Communication and the Internet is a collection of studies examining theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges to studying Internet-based data in the context of climate change. Providing access to a broad range of empirical evidence, the volume is an important and novel addition to the field of computer-mediated climate change communication, a research area that is poised to grow in the next few years.

Spis treści

1. Why Are People Skeptical about Climate Change? Some Insights from Blog Comments 2. Structure and Content of the Discourse on Climate Change in the Blogosphere: The Big Picture 3. Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3): The Role of the Internet in Climate Change Research Dissemination and Knowledge Mobilization 4. Examining User Comments for Deliberative Democracy: A Corpus-driven Analysis of the Climate Change Debate Online 5. Exploring the Use of Online Platforms for Climate Change Policy and Public Engagement by NGOs in Latin America6. Mobilizing Facebook Users against Facebook’s Energy Policy: The Case of Greenpeace Unfriend Coal Campaign

O autorze

Nelya Koteyko is a Reader in Applied Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. She is interested in the print and digital media representations of science and medicine, and has published widely on the linguistic and sociological approaches to analysing online data.

Brigitte Nerlich is Professor [Emerita, from October 2016] of Science, Language and Society at the University of Nottingham. She is interested in science communication, heath communication and climate change communication. She has published widely on issues related to science, language and culture.

Iina Hellsten is Associate Professor in Corporate Communication at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). Her research focuses on the dynamics of communication networks, in particular in social media settings.