The rise of #climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis

• DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2022.06.003
• Publication Date: 2022-07-09T17:20:55Z
• Authors: Caterina Suitner; Leonardo Badia; Damiano Clementel; Laura Iacovissi; Matteo Migliorini; Bruno Gabriel Sal...; Domenico Solimini; Magdalena Formano...; Tomaso Erseghe
• Keywords: Semantic change

We investigate the psycho-linguistic features of online discourse over climate change, focusing on its modifications throughout years 2017–2019 as a result collective actions emerging and spreading worldwide. seek to understand connection between digital activism psychological processes related social drives. To this end, semantic network is derived from platform Twitter, evolution traced time, tracking textual proxies identity empowerment. Original proposals are made identify communities highlight most important contents corpus perspective. These evaluations concepts further detail shift in rhetoric actions. Finally, we explore projection ingroup future about which can point developments pro-environmental campaigns.