Abstract
Understanding how society reacts to climate change means understanding how different societal subsystems approach the challenge. With the help of a heuristic of systems theory two subsystems of society – science and mass media – are compared with respect to communications about climate change over the last 20 years. With text mining methods metadata of documents from two databases – OpenAlex and Wikipedia – are generated, analyzed, and visualized. We find substantial differences as well as similarities in the social, factual, and temporal dimensions. While Wikipedia shows a much greater variety of concrete organizations, social movements, media outlets, and persons, science is more concerned with abstract interrelations of human action. In both systems, there is a shift in attention from describing the very phenomenon to questioning how to deal with this fact. This demonstrates for science a discursive shift from causes to consequences and for mass media a shift from chat to crisis. Science shows an ongoing growth process, while the attention of mass media appears cyclical.
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