Using Machine Learning to Recognize How City and State Agencies use Social Media for Communications about Environmental Conservation and Sustainability

• In Event: Environmental Communication and Social Media

Brief Overview

The rapid rise of social media has changed how governments communicate with their citizens. With a supervised learning model we attempt to understand how public administrations interact with communities about environmental issues.

Authors

• Nicholas P. Guehlstorf, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

• Courtney Breckenridge, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

• Robert Louis Durbin, Northern Illinois University (NIU)

• Colin Kuehl, Northern Illinois University