Journal
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Volume 39, Issue 5, Pages 598-620Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1075547017735113
Keywords
incivility; sarcasm; climate change; weather; social media; Twitter
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- Colorado State University Water Center [1301072]
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Conflict in online discussions of science has the potential to polarize individuals' perceptions of science, yet science communication scholarship has paid little attention to systematic study of how verbal attacks play out in online discussions of science. This study analyzes sarcasm and incivility in Twitter discussions of climate change during an extreme weather event (n = 4,094). We found instances of incivility and sarcasm were low overall. Incivility was used in association with political topics, and both incivility and sarcasm were used alongside skeptical perspectives of climate change and by those who mention right-leaning politics in their profiles.
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