Overcoming Obstacles and Disincentives
to Climate Change Mitigation:
A cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences
Corpora
Open data coming from social media and dedicated to climate change
Twitter corpus about climate change
This corpus includes data from media, politicians, and population accounts that twit about climate change-related subjects.
Corpora were collected in 3 countries: Belgium, France, and Norway and can be downloaded below.
This corpus is available to all, provided that the following reference is cited:
Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea; Catellani, Andrea; Samofalova, Yuliya, & Cougnon, Louise-Amélie (2022), European Twitter corpus about Climate Change, Dataset Publication, Open Data @ UCLouvain [online] https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/4ONWW7 (14 October 2022).
README file – Readme-TwitterCorpus-Climate
Contact person:
[email protected] – Dr Louise Amélie Cougnon
The present subcorpus reflects Twitter data collected from media, politicians, and population accounts based in Flanders (Belgium).
The csv file with the corpus data is stored in a compressed archive Twitter-Climate-BE-Flanders
The present subcorpus reflects Twitter data collected from media, politicians, and population accounts based in Wallonia (Belgium).
The csv file with the corpus data is stored in a compressed archive Twitter-Climate-BE-Wallonia
The present subcorpus reflects Twitter data collected from media, politicians, and population accounts based in France.
The csv file with the corpus data is stored in a compressed archive Twitter-Climate-FR
The present subcorpus reflects Twitter data collected from media, politicians, and population accounts based in Norway.
The csv file with the corpus data is stored in a compressed archive Twitter-Climate-NO
Instagram corpus about climate change
The present corpus reflects the most recent Instagram posts by opinion leading organisations, opinion leaders, and thematic hashtags related to climate change communication in three countries: Belgium, France, and Norway.
Contact persons:
[email protected] – Yuliya Samofalova, PhD researcher
[email protected] – Dr Louise Amélie Cougnon
Climate change opinion leading organisations are non-governmental organizations, involved in dissemination of environmental and climate change-related information, drawing particular attention to proposing solutions of how others should react to contribute to climate change mitigation strategies.
This corpus is available to all, provided that the following reference is cited:
Samofalova, Yuliya; Catellani, Andrea; Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea; Cougnon, Louise-Amélie (2022), Instagram publications from Climate Change Opinion Leading Organizations in Belgium, France, and Norway, Dataset Publication, Open Data @ UCLouvain [online] https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/EIHK90 (3 November 2022).
The CSV document includes the metadata to collected Instagram posts by climate change opinion leading organisations in three countries: Belgium, France, Norway.
CSV document with the metadata – climate-change-all-corpora-opinion-leading-organisations
README – climate-change-all-corpora-opinion-leading-organisations-README
Images and videos can be accessed by demand.
Climate change opinion leaders are engaged and competent individuals, who not only draw attention to climate change related problems, but also signal how others should respond or behave in order to reduce high consumption lifestyles.
The present corpus of climate change opinion leaders includes the data posted by individuals from Belgium, France, and Norway. In this case, climate change opinion leaders were selected “manually” according to the following criteria: (1) enduring envolvement and information sharing, (2) interpersonal influence, (3) expertise, (4) intermediality, and (5) interconnectedness.
This corpus is available to all, provided that the following reference is cited:
Samofalova, Yuliya; Catellani, Andrea; Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea; Cougnon, Louise-Amélie (2023), Instagram publications from 73 accounts of climate change opinion leaders in Belgium, France, and Norway, Dataset publication, Open Data @ UCLOuvain [online] https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/K2QOVS (1 February 2023).
The csv file represents the collected metadata for collected posts. The media files can be accessed by demand.
CSV document with the metadata – messages_all years_CCOL_Instagram_BE_FR_NO_CSV
README – OL_Instagram corpora_pseudonymized_README
The usernames of each account have been pseudonymized in order to achieve GDPR best effort data privacy requirements.
The CSV document represents the information about collected data from thematic hashtags related to Instagram posts about climate change in Belgium, France and Norway.
CSV document – climate-change-thematic hastags-2O2cm project
README – climate-change-thematic hastags-2O2cm project-README
The collected Instagram posts require further pseudonymisation and will be published soon.
Multi-platform corpora from social media
The present corpora reflect the most recent Instagram posts, TikTok and YouTube videos by opinion leading organisations and opinion leaders related to climate change communication in three countries: Belgium, France, and Norway.
Contact persons:
[email protected] – Yuliya Samofalova, PhD researcher
[email protected] – Dr Louise Amélie Cougnon
Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube corpora of social media posts by climate change opinion leading organizations from 3 countries: France, Belgium, Norway.
We define climate change opinion leading organizations as organizations, involved in dissemination of environmental and climate change-related information, drawing particular attention to proposing solutions of how others should react to contribute to climate change mitigation strategies.
This corpus is available to all, provided that the following reference is cited:
Samofalova, Yuliya; Catellani, Andrea; Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea; Cougnon, Louise-Amélie (2023), Multi-platform corpora of social media posts by climate change opinion leading organizations in Belgium, France, and Norway, Dataset Publication, Open Data @ UCLouvain [online] https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/GGOXOS (1 February, 2023).
The csv files in zip archive represent the metadata for collected posts. The media files can be accessed by demand.
CSV documents with the metadata – multi-platform_OLO_BE_FR_NO
README – multi-platform_OLO_README
Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube corpora of social media posts by climate change opinion leaders from 3 countries: France, Belgium, Norway.
Climate change opinion leaders are engaged and competent individuals, who not only draw attention to climate change related problems, but also signal how others should respond or behave in order to reduce high consumption lifestyles.
The present corpus of climate change opinion leaders includes the data posted by individuals from Belgium, France, and Norway. In this case, climate change opinion leaders were selected “manually” according to the following criteria: (1) enduring envolvement and information sharing, (2) interpersonal influence, (3) expertise, (4) intermediality, and (5) interconnectedness.
This corpus is available to all, provided that the following reference is cited:
Samofalova, Yuliya; Catellani, Andrea; Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea; Cougnon, Louise-Amélie (2023), Multi-platform corpora of messages by climate change opinion leaders in Belgium, France, and Norway, Dataset Publication, Open Data @ UCLouvain [online] https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/VHQKIN (1 February 2023).
The csv files in zip archive represent the metadata for collected posts. The media files can be accessed by demand.
CSV documents with the metadata – multi-platform-CCOL_BE-FR-NO_pseudonymized
README – multi-platform_OL_README
The usernames of each account have been pseudonymized in order to achieve GDPR best effort data privacy requirements.
Survey data about climate change
To be published soon…