KLIMA-MEMES
The Impact of Humorous Communication on Political Decision-Making in the Climate Change Context
The research project KLIMA-MEMES at the LMU Munich explores the question of what influence humorous-intended memes texts, images, and videos – shared online on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok – have on political decision-making. As part of the project, we collect data from various social media platforms during the UN World Climate Conferences 2023 (COP28) and 2024 (COP29) to analyze the content using manual and automated methods.
The interdisciplinary consortium project brings together researchers from the fields of Computational Communication Science, Computational Linguistics, and Computer Vision.
RECent News And Events
October 11, 2024 | LMU Climate School
The KLIMA-MEMES project participated again in the LMU Climate School in 2024, where Simon Lübke led a workshop on climate change reporting. Participants explored journalistic basics, identified reporting patterns, and examined trends in the climate debate, such as constructive journalism and the role of memes and humor.
October 3, 2024 | ECCV 2024
Johannes Schusterbauer and Björn Ommer presented their project paper, “FMBoost: Boosting Latent Diffusion with Flow Matching,” at the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024) in Milan, where they were selected for an oral presentation.
September 25, 2024 | ECREA 2024 Conference
From September 24-27, Jörg Haßler and Simon Lübke attended the 10th ECREA Conference in Ljubliana and presented a project paper titled „The use of humor styles in memes on climate change“.
September 20, 2024 | Scholarship for Nadezdha Ozornina
Nadezdha Ozornina has been awarded the forsa / Paul Lazarsfeld Scholarship 2024 by the Methods Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) for her work on „Comparing Multilingual Topic Models“.
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The KLIMA-MEMES project is funded by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation.
