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
March 28, 2025 | Workshop on Disinformation
Resesarchers from the KLIMA-MEMES project attended a workshop hosted by the bidt and the BLM on „Coordinated Disinformation“ and discussed ways to detect and combat disinformation on the internet.
March 20, 2025 | DGPuK 2025
The KLIMA-MEMES team gave two talks at the conference of the German Association for Communication (DGPuK) at Free University Berlin and presented findings on climate communication across social media platforms and on climate skepticism.
January 20, 2025 | COP29: Data collection completed
As in 2023, we collected visual social media content on climate change on various platforms for the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku. The next step is to clean the data we collected from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
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.
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The KLIMA-MEMES project is funded by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation.
