Humour and sarcasm: expressions of global warming on Twitter

Abstract The increasing popularity of Twitter as a medium for sharing and debating scientific information brings forth questions about the type narratives emerging around environmental/climate change global warming. This article maps landscape how is used to communicate environmental issues in Turkey. It displays these actors can play crucial role constructing and/or de-constructing such crisis. I show users Turkey, use strengthen their own public’s awareness on warming or deny all together create counter narrative certain frames that promote scepticism are broadly disseminated by using emotional context. analyses 1295 tweets collected random week sample displayed who sceptical Turkish government taking more active stance toward climate whereas supporting general where preoccupied with hoax arguments return may compromise trust authorities. analysis combines thematic coding. conclude paper conversing significance studying communicative platform provides rich displaying existing dynamics.