IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/wirecc/v3y2012i6p527-543.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Online communication on climate change and climate politics: a literature review

Author

Listed:
  • Mike S. Schäfer

Abstract

The study of climate change communication has become an important research field. As stakeholders such as scientists, politicians, corporations, or NGOs increasingly turn to the Internet and social media for providing information and mobilizing support, and as an increasing number of people use these media, online communication on climate change and climate politics has become a relevant topic. This article reviews the available scholarly literature on the role of online and social media in climate communication. It analyzes how stakeholders use online communication strategically, showing, for example, that climate scientists and scientific institutions do not seem to be major players in online debates about climate change and climate politics. Furthermore, it highlights the characteristics of online climate communication, outlining, for example, that although (or because) many stakeholders participate online, this does not lead to robust scientific information or better debates. Eventually, the review assesses what is known about the uses and effects of online climate communication, showing that impacts on the broader public seem to be limited so far. Research desiderata are identified in the end, and directions for further studies are shown. WIREs Clim Change 2012, 3:527–543. doi: 10.1002/wcc.191 This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Communication

Suggested Citation

  • Mike S. Schäfer, 2012. "Online communication on climate change and climate politics: a literature review," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 3(6), pages 527-543, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:wirecc:v:3:y:2012:i:6:p:527-543
    DOI: 10.1002/wcc.191
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.191
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/wcc.191?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Vincent Didiek Wiet Aryanto & Yohan Wismantoro & Yudith Vega Paramitadevi, 2020. "The Climate Change Issue towards Behavioral Intentions: A Perspective of Social Marketing," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 10(2), pages 483-490.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:wirecc:v:3:y:2012:i:6:p:527-543. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1002/(ISSN)1757-7799 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.