Making Climate Social

Climate change on social media: what do we know, what do we see, what do we do?

Rather than a full blog post, here is a tweet-thread version of my recent Met Office talk about climate change on social media, looking at the existing literature, the role of images, and…

The Challenges of Social Media for Climate Change Experts

For the past three decades the world has become increasingly digitalised. Digital media have become ubiquitous to the point of being invisible, a phenomenon achieved through converging technologies and social communications. While…

Strange times for climate change: deadlines, politics and our flickering futures.

New paper: Dangerous deadlines

I am a co-author on a new Nature Climate Change commentary this week: “Why setting a climate deadline is…

Visualising climate debate across the social web

Notes from the Making Climate Social Discovery Day

Getting under the skin of climate change on social media

Whose data is it anyway?

The last year has shown new developments and concerns around data privacy on social media platforms and the issue of user consent including the creation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Act (GDPR) and the Cambridge Analytica Scandal. These recent developments have…

Context, images and the limits of digital methods