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

Tom Morris tfmorris at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 15:21:59 UTC 2013


That spreadsheet doesn't seem to be editable.  IWF's twitter is
https://twitter.com/IWF (from their homepage). Here's a list of Freebase &
Wikipedia links (unlinked organizations aren't in Freebase):

FreebaseWikipediaAmerican Enterprise
Institute<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0p8q4>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_InstituteHeartland
Institute <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/07cn1b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_InstituteAmericans for
Prosperity<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/americans_for_prosperity>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_ProsperityFederalist
Society<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/013b5b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_SocietyState Policy
Network<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0fp_9lk>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_NetworkHudson
Institute<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/020v68>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_InstituteCommittee for a Constructive
Tomorrow <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/062fds>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_a_Constructive_TomorrowAmericans
for Limited Government<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/americans_for_limited_government>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Limited_GovernmentIndependent
Women's Forum <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/050dcv>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Women%27s_ForumInstitute for
Humane Studies <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/02vnxj>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Humane_StudiesTexas Public
Policy Foundation <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0c9g8t>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Public_Policy_FoundationInstitute for
Religion and Democracy <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/093zrf>
Mercatus Center <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0b38yh>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_CenterNFIB Legal Foundation
Illinois Policy Institute <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/043kzy8>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Policy_InstitutePhilanthropy
Roundtable <http://www.freebase.com/view/m/03pclm>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy_RoundtableIndependence
Institute<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0cc51yy>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_InstituteFreedom Foundation
(Evergreen Freedom Foundation)
Cato Institute
Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives



On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 7:46 AM, 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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>>
>> --
>> João Pedro Cruz
>>
>
>
>
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