This post is just to highlight an interesting paper that’s just been published that analyzed the comment threads here and at WUWT.
Out now in Science Communication! We find that users in comment sections of climate change blogs mostly deploy polarizing strategies, which ultimately do not resolve framing differences. #openaccesshttps://t.co/6vs5fif9EWpic.twitter.com/gIGyWPeuRR
In it, the authors analyze how the commenters interact, argue and attempt to persuade, mostly, to be fair, unsuccessfully. It may be that seeing how academics analyse the arguments, some commenters might want to modify their approach… who knows?
C.W. van Eck, B.C. Mulder, and A. Dewulf, “Online Climate Change Polarization: Interactional Framing Analysis of Climate Change Blog Comments”, Science Communication, pp. 107554702094222, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547020942228
Somebody read the comments…
This post is just to highlight an interesting paper that’s just been published that analyzed the comment threads here and at WUWT.
In it, the authors analyze how the commenters interact, argue and attempt to persuade, mostly, to be fair, unsuccessfully. It may be that seeing how academics analyse the arguments, some commenters might want to modify their approach… who knows?
The comment threads they looked at (I think) are from five posts from Feb to April 2019, including The best case for worst case scenarios, Nenana Ice Classic 2019, First successful model simulation of the past 3 million years and a couple of open threads.
References
C.W. van Eck, B.C. Mulder, and A. Dewulf, “Online Climate Change Polarization: Interactional Framing Analysis of Climate Change Blog Comments”, Science Communication, pp. 107554702094222, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547020942228
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