CC Group 7: Climate Change and Social Media

Provided within this dataset is a research notebook, data, and audio files that were generated as part of a third-year Integrated Science project regarding the communication of climate change science on social media. This research was done to ascertain whether the transition from traditional news mediums to social news mediums has the potential to thin the divide between the scientific consensus on climate change and the public's perception of climate change science. Primary data was collected form the social media platform, Twitter, and a literature review was performed to answer this research question. The primary research revealed where influence resides on Twitter while the literature review incorporated psychological factors, factors related to social media algorithms, and the influence of journalistic norms.