The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook

Bloomfield, Emma Frances; Tillery, Denise

doi:10.1080/17524032.2018.1527378

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“…Most prior studies on Facebook have focused on the circulation of climate sceptic information [e.g. Bloomfield and Tillery, 2019] or fake news [Lutzke et al, 2019]. The scoping study suggests NGOs were visible on Facebook in all three countries, with activists and media evident in the U.K. and Serbia.…”

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Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

Weitkamp¹,

Milani²,

Ridgway³

et al. 2021

JCOM

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This study explores the types of actors visible in the digital science communication landscape in the Netherlands, Serbia and the U.K. Using the Koru model of science communication as a basis, we consider how science communicators craft their messages and which channels they are using to reach audiences. The study took as case studies the topics of climate change and healthy diets to enable comparison across countries, topics and platforms. These findings are compared with the results from a survey of over 200 science communication practitioners based in these countries. We find that although traditional media are challenged by the variety of different new entrants into the digital landscape, our results suggest that the media and journalists remain highly visible. In addition, our survey results suggest that many science communicators may struggle to gain traction in the crowded digital ecology, and in particular, that relatively few scientists and research institutions and universities are achieving a high profile in the public digital media ecology of science communication.

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confidence: 98%

Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

Weitkamp¹,

Milani²,

Ridgway³

et al. 2021

JCOM

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“…While this contribution is thus limited to the situation in Europe, far‐right climate‐change communication in the United States, that is, climate‐change communication beyond contemporary conservatives (see above) indicates a similar picture. A piece by Bloomfield and Tillery () analyzed, among other things, the rhetorical and networking strategies of a Breitbart contributor in a climate‐change skeptic Facebook group. Indeed, many of the rhetorical strategies mentioned are not only known from contemporary conservative climate skeptics, but also from far‐right ones in Europe.…”

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Climate change and the far right

Forchtner

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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In recent years two crises have populated the imagination of publics: environmental crises, ranging from, for example, water and air pollution to climate change, and the crisis of liberal democracy, illustrated by the rise of far‐right actors across Europe, the United States and beyond. While these environmental and political crises have been analyzed on their own, little research has been done on their nexus. Against this background, this focus article reviews existing academic literature on far‐right climate‐change communication by European party and nonparty actors, that is, climate‐change communication from a distinctively ethno‐nationalist and authoritarian perspective. The far right is not a homogenous entity but best viewed as a continuum, ranging from radical‐right, anti‐liberal democracy actors to extreme‐right, anti‐democracy ones. This contribution to WIREs Climate Change argues that many, though not all, far‐right party and nonparty actors are skeptical towards (anthropogenic) climate change and/or responses to it, at least in comparison to the European mainstream. The article does so by reviewing existing research before formulating areas for further research. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Social Movements

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“…Failure to accommodate this, or to have resources available to address this, could lead to early failures, which then place climate change as even less of a legitimate issue. This is exacerbated in the post-truth world, as highlighted through populist campaigns such as climate change denialism (Harvey et al, 2018;Bloomfield and Tillery, 2019;Bowden et al, 2019;Kovaka, 2021) and resistance to immunization programmes for the COVID-19 virus (Jaiswal et al, 2020;Uscinski et al, 2020).…”

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Advancing Relevance, Credibility, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness as a Heuristic for Local-Parallel Scenarios

Cradock-Henry¹,

Frame²

2021

Front. Clim.

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The parallel scenario process provides a framework for developing plausible scenarios of future conditions. Combining greenhouse gas emissions, social and economic trends, and policy responses, it enables researchers and policy makers to consider global-scale interactions, impacts and implications of climate change. Increasingly, researchers are developing extended scenarios, based on this framework, and incorporating them into adaptation planning and decision-making processes at the local level. To enable the identification of possible impacts and assess vulnerability, these local-parallel scenarios must successfully accommodate diverse knowledge systems, multiple values, and competing priorities including both “top down” modeling and “bottom-up” participatory processes. They must link across scales, to account for the ways in which global changes affect and influence decision-making in local places. Due to the growing use of scenarios, there is value in assessing these developments using criteria or, more specifically, heuristics that may be implicitly acknowledged rather than formally monitored and evaluated. In this Perspective, we reflect on various contributions regarding the value of heuristics and propose the adoption of current definitions for Relevance, Credibility, and Legitimacy for guiding local scenario development as the most useful as well as using Effectiveness for evaluation purposes. We summarize the internal trade-offs (personal time, clarity-complexity, speed-quality, push-pull) and the external stressors (equity and the role of science in society) that influence the extent to which heuristics are used as “rules of thumb,” rather than formal assessment. These heuristics may help refine the process of extending the parallel scenario framework to the local and enable cross-case comparisons.

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The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook

Cited by 78 publications

References 35 publications

Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

Climate change and the far right

Advancing Relevance, Credibility, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness as a Heuristic for Local-Parallel Scenarios

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