What’s not trending on Weibo: China’s missing climate change discourse
Given the central role of People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the global climate crisis, discussion and analysis of Chinese actions and pledges on decarbonization abound. However, less examined are the popular ‘demand’ side of climate change politics inside of China. Our article explores a new set o...
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| description | Given the central role of People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the global climate crisis, discussion and analysis of Chinese actions and pledges on decarbonization abound. However, less examined are the popular ‘demand’ side of climate change politics inside of China. Our article explores a new set of data to gauge public discourse in China related to climate change by looking at trending topics on the prominent social media platform, Sina Weibo. In over 348,000 trending topics on Weibo from June 2017 to February 2021, we find only 336 unique topics, that is 0.12%, related to climate change. Even in the rare occasions when climate-related topics start trending, we find a general lack of substantive engagement in Weibo posts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73552439f13d42dab8dd3a6d463896412023-04-18T13:48:23ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Communications2515-76202023-01-015101100210.1088/2515-7620/acaceeWhat’s not trending on Weibo: China’s missing climate change discourseChuxuan Liu0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1125-4586Jeremy Lee Wallace1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7152-8481Stanford University 210 Encina West , 616 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305 United States of AmericaCornell University 211 White Hall , 123 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY, 14850 United States of AmericaGiven the central role of People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the global climate crisis, discussion and analysis of Chinese actions and pledges on decarbonization abound. However, less examined are the popular ‘demand’ side of climate change politics inside of China. Our article explores a new set of data to gauge public discourse in China related to climate change by looking at trending topics on the prominent social media platform, Sina Weibo. In over 348,000 trending topics on Weibo from June 2017 to February 2021, we find only 336 unique topics, that is 0.12%, related to climate change. Even in the rare occasions when climate-related topics start trending, we find a general lack of substantive engagement in Weibo posts.https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acaceeclimate changeChinasocial media |
| spellingShingle | Chuxuan Liu Jeremy Lee Wallace What’s not trending on Weibo: China’s missing climate change discourse Environmental Research Communications climate change China social media |
| title | What’s not trending on Weibo: China’s missing climate change discourse |
| title_full | What’s not trending on Weibo: China’s missing climate change discourse |
| title_fullStr | What’s not trending on Weibo: China’s missing climate change discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | What’s not trending on Weibo: China’s missing climate change discourse |
| title_short | What’s not trending on Weibo: China’s missing climate change discourse |
| title_sort | what s not trending on weibo china s missing climate change discourse |
| topic | climate change China social media |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acacee |
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