Why Do Twitter Birds of a Feather Flock Together? – An ABM Approach to Online Climate Change Communications.

• In Event: Polarization in the US and Around the World

Brief Overview

Drawing theories from various disciplines, we build an Agent-based Model to explore what local mechanisms account for the global segregation of public opinion on climate change on Twitter. We use NetLogo to implement the model and run experiments.

Authors

• Habi Zhang, Purdue University

• Alexander J. Pijanowski, Purdue University