Social Media

The majority of the people worldwide are connected on social media, and these platforms offer a wealth of information that can be mined to better inform solutions to pressing social challenges.

Resources

Advancing an Internet Research Agenda for CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security

Blog
As digital platforms increasingly influence social interactions, social scientists have had to evolve their methodologies to capture this transformation. At CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security, the…

The Weaponisation of Environmental Information in the Era of Fake News

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Environmental disaster? War crime? Ecological terrorism? A polarised and omnipresent social media is turbocharging the manipulation of environmental information during conflicts. While the use of…

There Have Been Repeated Warnings About the Environmental Risks Posed by Flooded Coal Mines in Eastern Ukraine, Are We Now Seeing Evidence That It Is Happening?

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On the 12th March reports emerged on social media of contamination and discoloration at a reservoir in the town of Yenakiyevo, northwest of Donetsk. A follow up article by Free…

The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar: A Dispatch from an Internet Revolution in Progress

Briefs & Development
For six weeks last October and November, just before Myanmar held its landmark elections, I joined a team of design ethnographers in the countryside interviewing…

Online Identification of Conflict Related Environmental Damage

Briefs & Development
With the conflict in Syria soon to enter its fifth year, large parts of the country have been laid to waste by intense fighting, bombardment…