[School-of-data] Social network analysis on climate change denial thinktanks?

Jonathan Gray jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Sun Mar 3 15:08:33 UTC 2013


FYI we now have a list of the Twitter accounts (and URLs) for the top 20
climate denial organisations who received funding from the Donors Trust
from 2002-2011: http://bit.ly/climate-denial-orgs-twitter


On 3 March 2013 14:05, Liliana Bounegru <liliana.bounegru at digitalmethods.net
> wrote:

> Thank you for getting the project started Jonathan.
>
> We might want to include skeptical experts and organisations that are
> already on these lists compiled for the projects below and in the attached
> pdf:
>
>    - identify skeptics and measure how prominent they are on the web:
>    https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ClimateChangeSkeptics
>    - climate change skeptics and their issues:
>    https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SkepticsIssues
>    - identify top 10 skeptics on the web, in the blogosphere and in the
>    science network:
>    https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerClimateChangeExercise
>
> I'll have a look at the document and see what I can add to it.
>
> Best,
>
> Liliana
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi João,
>>
>> It would be great if you'd be up for helping look into climate change
>> denial organisations on Twitter.
>>
>> An overview of what we've been up to so far is here:
>>
>> http://bit.ly/cc-denial-sna
>>
>> Probably the main thing to do first is to try to construct a list of
>> Twitter accounts of climate denial organisations and individuals that
>> receive funds from the Donors Trust. I've started one here:
>>
>> http://bit.ly/climate-denial-orgs-twitter
>>
>> I also asked Suzanne Goldenberg (the author of the Guardian article in
>> February [1]) to see if she had a complete list of all the organisations
>> that received funding [2].
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/donors-trust-funding-climate-denial-networks
>> [2] https://twitter.com/jwyg/status/308191812395339776
>>
>> On 2 March 2013 11:32, João Pedro Cruz <cruz.joaopedro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>> I would be interested in working on this.
>>>
>>> I have some experience with social network analysis applied to criminal
>>> networks and communications networks applied to product development.
>>>
>>> I worked mostly with Pajek, Netdraw, UCINET and Gephi for SNA and Excell
>>> and Access for working the data.
>>>
>>> Anything I can do for this project?
>>>
>>> For the OKFN I worked mostly with the econ-WG with Velichka and the guys.
>>>
>>> Let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/2/20 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Tony and I have recently been talking about the possibility of doing
>>>> some social network analysis on the network of climate change denial think
>>>> tanks that have been in the headlines recently [1].
>>>>
>>>> I've just started a publicly editable doc to start collecting relevant
>>>> links, ideas, tools, etc, here [2].
>>>>
>>>> Anyone interested in looking into this? ;-)
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network
>>>> [2] http://bit.ly/cc-denial-sna
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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