{"id":23173,"date":"2020-07-28T22:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=23173"},"modified":"2020-07-28T22:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T03:03:34","slug":"somebody-read-the-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2020\/07\/somebody-read-the-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody read the comments&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"23173\">\n\n<p>This post is just to highlight an <span id=\"cite_ITEM-23173-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-23173-0\">interesting paper<\/a><\/span> that&#8217;s just been published that analyzed the comment threads here and at WUWT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Out now in Science Communication! We find that users in comment sections of climate change blogs mostly deploy polarizing strategies, which ultimately do not resolve framing differences. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/openaccess?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#openaccess<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6vs5fif9EW\">https:\/\/t.co\/6vs5fif9EW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gIGyWPeuRR\">pic.twitter.com\/gIGyWPeuRR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christel van Eck | christelvaneck.bsky.social (@ChristelvanEck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristelvanEck\/status\/1288040411282407424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In it, the authors analyze how the commenters interact, argue and attempt to persuade, mostly, to be fair, unsuccessfully. It may be that seeing how academics analyse the arguments, some commenters might want to modify their approach&#8230; who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comment threads they looked at (I think) are from five posts from Feb to April 2019, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2019\/02\/the-best-case-for-worst-case-scenarios\/\">The best case for worst case scenarios<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2019\/04\/nenana-ice-classic-2019\/\">Nenana Ice Classic 2019<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2019\/04\/first-successful-model-simulation-of-the-past-3-million-years-of-climate-change\/\">First successful model simulation of the past 3 million years<\/a> and a couple of open threads.<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol>\n    <li><a name='ITEM-23173-0'><\/a>\nC.W. van Eck, B.C. Mulder, and A. Dewulf, \"Online Climate Change Polarization: Interactional Framing Analysis of Climate Change Blog Comments\", <i>Science Communication<\/i>, vol. 42, pp. 454-480, 2020. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1075547020942228\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1075547020942228<\/a>\n\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 23173 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is just to highlight an that&#8217;s just been published that analyzed the comment threads here and at WUWT. In it, the authors analyze how the commenters interact, argue and attempt to persuade, mostly, to be fair, unsuccessfully. 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