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
November 27, 2024 | Talk by Saif Mohammad
Dr. Saif Mohammad from the NRC Canada and an international expert in the project gave a lecture entitled „NLP for Affective Science: A Window into Emotions through Language and Computation“ at the MaiNLP research lab at LMU.
November 26, 2024 | Workshop with International Experts
We organized a workshop with all working groups from the project and the two international experts to discuss the findings from each discipline and explore opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
November 26, 2024 | Lecture by Betsi Grabe
Prof. Betsi Grabe from Boston University gave a lecture on „Taking Images Seriously“ at LMU and provided insights into the dynamics of US election campaings over the past 20 years.
November 15, 2024 | Memes and German Politics
After the collapse of Germany’s governing coalition, several memes were posted about these events were posted on social media. We spoke with journalists from BR, WDR, and NDR to provide insights into the use and the effects of internet
memes.
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The KLIMA-MEMES project is funded by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation.
