100 000 climate change memes

100 000 climate change memes

#case

January 2022

Evaluating the symbolic weight of memes, their political undertones as well as their expressive power in the climate debate

Challenges

  • Gathering a large amount of data from various platforms
  • Human-based and algorithm-based evaluation of visual data collections

Solutions

  • Image classification through supervised learning
  • Creation of a viewer tool
  • Semiotic analysis

Results

  • Measuring the ambivalence of the content reviewed
  • Analysis of the prominent position occupied by "pro-climate" activism, showing how the lines between meme and information/persuasion were blurred
  • Highlighting blatant or underlying conflicts

The study is not publicly available.