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
June 25, 2024 | Talk by Manfred Stede
Prof. Manfred Stede, Professor of Applied Computational Linguistics at the University of Potsdam, visited MaiNLP and gave a talk on the framing of climate change in journal editorials and the analysis of communication by members of
the German Bundestag.
June 21, 2024 | bidt Blog Post
A new bidt blog post by Simon Lübke on the role of humor in the climate crises discusses the role of memes and humor in political communication and summarizes first empirical findings from the project.
May 28, 2024 |re:publica 24
From May 27-29, 2024, Simon Lübke participated in re:publica24 as a speaker. As part of the festival for the digital society, he gave a talk titled “Humor in the Climate Crisis: How Memes Influence the Political Climate Discourse.”
May 3, 2024 | COMPTEXT Conference
On 2-4 May 2024, Nadezhda Ozornina participated in ‚The Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Textual Data (COMPTEXT)‘ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She presented her study on the application of machine translation for multilingual topic modeling
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The KLIMA-MEMES project is funded by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation.
