{"id":1659,"date":"2017-02-01T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2017-02-01T11:27:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:27:39","slug":"collecting-climatechange-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/2017\/02\/01\/collecting-climatechange-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting #climatechange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am collecting data on #climatechange to see how people are talking about climate change and climate-related issues.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: medium\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Tracking environmental issues on Twitter would be interesting to me because I am passionate about the environment. I try to incorporate climate change into my studies as much as possible, and mapping and further understanding climate policies and online chatter would be interesting in myriad ways. I have always been interested in climate-related issues. I have published two articles in <i>The European Financial Review<\/i> (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeanfinancialreview.com\/?p=5603\" target=\"_blank\">The Rise of Shenzhen and BYD \u2013 How a Chinese Corporate Pioneer is Leading Greener and More Sustainable Urban Transportation and Development<\/a>\u201d, and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeanfinancialreview.com\/?p=12327\" target=\"_blank\">China\u2019s Emerging Silicon Valley: How and Why Has Shenzhen Become a Global Innovation Centre<\/a>\u201d) that are on climate change, green technology and sustainable energy. Tracking how much people discuss these issues on Twitter and when, and finding correlations with current trends would be fascinating. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I noticed a lot of tweets about #climatechange were from smaller (less followers) accounts, and were tweeted at much larger accounts, namely @LeoDiCaprio, @realdonaldtrump, and @Greenpeace. This is basically what I expected to see on this #climatechange hashtag. A lot of the tweets seemed to be trying to make others aware that climate change is real, and it seems these users are trying to spread the word. For example, @Stacy_Auer said, &#8220;RT @LeoDiCaprio: #ClimateChange is real. Scientists agree. Get the facts. #climatefacts https:\/\/t.co\/OsSxAJ6cdV&#8221; and @alevergara78 says, &#8220;RT @Altiziana: World surface temperature analysis: https:\/\/t.co\/7NoZEjUa3F #climatechange #globalwarming #dataviz&#8221;, even referencing data visualization!<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1x1V5O7kiMprO6BtNqE_6rdRSOpBxZ94tC5-8jMOHkIQ\/pubhtml?gid=400689247&#038;amp;single=true&#038;amp;widget=true&#038;amp;headers=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>&#8220;#climatechange&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lookup-result__content ng-binding\">Farrick, Ryan J. \u201cTrump Begins Disemboweling EPA.\u201d January 29, 2017. Accessed February 1, 2017. http:\/\/www.legalreader.com\/trump-begins-disemboweling-epa\/.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lookup-result__content ng-binding\">Imbler, Sabrina. \u201c#ClimateFacts is the best thing on Twitter today.\u201d January 30, 2017. Accessed February 1, 2017. http:\/\/grist.org\/briefly\/the-dakota-access-pipeline-is-creeping-one-step-closer-to-completion\/.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Climate change&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lookup-result__content ng-binding\">Edelstein, Stephen. \u201cChina Happy to Become World\u2019s Climate-Change Leader If U.S. Lags.\u201d December 30, 2016. Accessed February 1, 2017. http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1108622_china-happy-to-become-worlds-climate-change-leader-if-u-s-lags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lookup-result__content ng-binding\">Johnston, Ian. \u201cWorld-Leading Climate Change Scientist Calls for \u2018rebellion\u2019 Against Donald Trump.\u201d <i>The Independent &#8211; Americas<\/i> (Independent), February 1, 2017. http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/donald-trump-climate-change-rebellion-michael-mann-global-warming-scientists-a7556696.html.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I searched Google News for #climatechange, I found two articles on recent climate policies and political stances, one about President Trump disemboweling the EPA, and the other about how #ClimateFacts is trending on Twitter and what this means for climate change policy. This past week, both Bernie Sanders and Leonardo DiCaprio tweeted about how climate change is real, and how scientists unanimously agree. It seemed that when I searched for #climatechange, it lead me to articles that contained the term &#8220;climate change&#8221;, whereas when I searched for &#8220;climate change&#8221;, climate change was in the title of the article more often. Others around me feel climate change has always been an issue, but it is only coming to light as of late, likely because of so many speaking out about it, such as Leonardo DiCaprio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lookup-result__content ng-binding\">troy. \u201cEast African Federation.\u201d March 28, 2006. Accessed February 1, 2017. http:\/\/gadocartoons.com\/east-african-federation-2\/.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I searched for #climatechange in January to March, 2006, I found <em>one<\/em> article that included the term #climatechange. Oddly enough, it was a cartoon about the East African Federation. The cartoon depicted a scene in &#8220;The Year 2500&#8221;, as if #climatechange was merely a thing of the far far future&#8230; It still is surprising there was not more talk of climate change, however this was just a search for a hashtag, and the era of hashtags was just getting going in 2006, so it does not come as much of a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I feel that I am collecting live data, and not connecting to the actual liveliness of climate change because, as Marres and Weltevrede says, liveliness has &#8220;&#8230;difficulties in terms of the limited life span and deterioration of \u2018live\u2019 data sets,&#8221; (Marres and Weltevrede, p.324). Climate change is not a topic that comes and goes as it does on social media. Climate change is always there, and therefore I am collecting live data and not just measuring how often it is talked about, as climate change is always an issue until it is heavily curbed.<\/p>\n<p>Marres, Noortje, and Esther Weltevrede. 2013. \u201cScraping the Social?\u201d <em>Journal of Cultural Economy<\/em> 6 (3): 313\u201335.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am collecting data on #climatechange to see how people are talking about climate change and climate-related issues. Tracking environmental issues on Twitter would be interesting to me because I am passionate about the environment. 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