Twitter Users’ Displays of Affect in the Global Warming Debate

Bibliographic Data

ID21411020
AuthorsShanna Cameron (0000-0002-3942-7859, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States, corresponding author), Alexandra Russell (0000-0003-0452-7662, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States), Luke Brake (University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States), Katherine Fredlund (University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States), Angela Morris (0000-0002-5089-7165, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States)
Year2022
Volume52
Issue2
Pages213-235
Publication date2022-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Technical Writing and Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2816 • E-ISSN: 1541-3780
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00472816211007804
OpenAlexW3155213186
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited30

This article engages with recent discussions in the field of technical communication that call for climate change research that moves beyond the believer/denier dichotomy. For this study, our research team coded 900 tweets about climate change and global warming for different emotions in order to understand how Twitter users rely on affect rhetorically. Our findings use quantitative content analysis to challenge current assumptions about writing and affect on social media, and our results indicate a number of arenas for future research on affect, global warming, and rhetoric

Affect (linguistics) · Business · Climate change · Field (mathematics) · Global warming · Linguistics · Media studies · Order (exchange) · Political science · Public relations · Rhetoric · Social media · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Ecology · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Public Relations and Crisis Communication

Tools

Open DOI