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
May 8, 2025 | PRUF Symposion
Simon Lübke gave a presentation at the PRUF Symposium in Düsseldorf and presented findings from an analysis conducted together with Anna-Katharina Wurst and Jörg Haßler on the 2025 election campaign on TikTok.
April 16, 2024 | COMPTEXT 25 Conference
At COMPTEXT 25 in Vienna, Nadja Ozornina presented the results of her interdisciplinary work together with Markus Baumann und Johannes Schusterbauer on clustering multimodal content across languages.
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.
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The KLIMA-MEMES project is funded by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation.
