Temperature impacts on hate speech online: evidence from 4 billion geolocated tweets from the USA

Stechemesser, Annika; Levermann, Anders; Wenz, Leonie

doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(22)00173-5

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“…Twitter provided the data to the approved researchers in a format without personally identifiable information and did not require engagement with users for access, thus avoiding the federally regulated Institutional Review Board review. The sentiment analysis of Twitter users’ geolocated tweets, while limited [ 8 , 22 ], may be used to identify levels of fear of the virus and levels of vaccine hesitancy in a given population during a pandemic. To explain, geolocated tweets do not represent all Twitter populations as not all users provide their location information.…”

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“…To explain, geolocated tweets do not represent all Twitter populations as not all users provide their location information. Furthermore, given the linguistic diversity of the USA, another limitation of our study is that we only looked at English-language tweets [ 22 , 23 ]. Twitter’s API provides access to 1% of the public tweets by random sampling in near real-time.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Modeling Behavior and Vaccine Hesitancy Using Twitter-Derived US Population Sentiment during the COVID-19 Pandemic to Predict Daily Vaccination Inoculations

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The sentiment analysis of social media for predicting behavior during a pandemic is seminal in nature. As an applied contribution, we present sentiment-based regression models for predicting the United States COVID-19 first dose, second dose, and booster daily inoculations from 1 June 2021 to 31 March 2022. The models merge independent variables representing fear of the virus and vaccine hesitancy. Large correlations exceeding 77% and 84% for the first-dose and booster-dose models inspire confidence in the merger of the independent variables. Death count as a traditional measure of fear is a lagging indicator of inoculations, while Twitter-positive and -negative tweets are strong predictors of inoculations. Thus, the use of sentiment analysis for predicting inoculations is strongly supported with administrative events being catalysts for tweets. Non-inclusion in the second-dose regression model of data occurring before the 1 June 2021 timeframe appear to limit the second-dose model results—only achieving a moderate correlation exceeding 53%. Limiting tweet collection to geolocated tweets does not encompass the entire US Twitter population. Nonetheless, results from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) surveys appear to generally support the regression factors common to the first-dose and booster-dose regression models and their results.

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Modeling Behavior and Vaccine Hesitancy Using Twitter-Derived US Population Sentiment during the COVID-19 Pandemic to Predict Daily Vaccination Inoculations

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“…Evidence steadily accrues that climate change has profound and compounded effects on human health and health care systems, and that these effects are not distributed equitably (Romanello et al 2022). For example, as detailed in the fifth Oregon Climate Assessment (Ho et al 2021) (Stechemesser et al 2022).…”

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Sixth Oregon climate assessment

Fleishman¹

2023

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Consistent with its charge under Oregon House Bill 3543, the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) conducts a biennial assessment of the state of climate change science, including biological, physical, and social science, as it relates to Oregon and the likely effects of climate change on Oregon. This sixth Oregon Climate Assessment builds on the previous assessments by continuing to evaluate past and projected future changes in Oregon’s climate and water supply. Like the fifth assessment, it is structured with the goal of supporting the state’s mitigation planning for natural hazards and implementation of the 2021 Oregon Climate Change Adaptation Framework.

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“…The young experience more anxiety about climate change, while adults are prone to fatalism, inertia, denial, and inability to face the challenge. Moreover, disrupted environments often leads to social isolation, threats to social cohesion, and increase in online hate speech (that also affect social cohesion and mental health) [39,40].…”

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Is climate change affecting mental health of urban populations?

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Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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Purpose of reviewIn this article, we outline an up-to-date overview of the climate change impact on mental health of urban population, conducted by searching the PubMed database for relevant studies published in the past 12–18 months, in English.Recent findingsClimate change is part of a larger systemic ecological problem in which human demands are exceeding the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. We are witnessing a ‘climate chaos’, a phase of instability and transformation, which is leading humans into a psychological condition of ‘systemic insecurity’ and a shared feeling of uncertainty. Currently, one of the places where our species is particularly exposed to climate change are cities, due to build-up in urban infrastructure, rapid and chaotic urbanization, high densities and recent rapid growth, social inequality, and ‘heat island effect’.The impact of climate change on cities exposes vulnerable groups to the worse mental health consequences. These groups include the homelessness, slum dwellers for whom the ‘neighbourhood effects’ are being discussed, climate refugees and migrants, young people, and finally those who assist these people.SummaryIn order to realize broader mental health prevention in cities exposed to climate change phenomena, public health approaches are needed. Institutions must avoid reinforcing inequalities among the more vulnerable groups or create new inequalities.

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Temperature impacts on hate speech online: evidence from 4 billion geolocated tweets from the USA

Cited by 18 publications

References 63 publications

Modeling Behavior and Vaccine Hesitancy Using Twitter-Derived US Population Sentiment during the COVID-19 Pandemic to Predict Daily Vaccination Inoculations

Modeling Behavior and Vaccine Hesitancy Using Twitter-Derived US Population Sentiment during the COVID-19 Pandemic to Predict Daily Vaccination Inoculations

Sixth Oregon climate assessment

Is climate change affecting mental health of urban populations?

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