Abstract
In 2015, the United Nation General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals aiming at ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities, and tackling climate change. We collected Twitter data about the 2030 Agenda from May 9th to November 9th, 2018. The aim of this work is to obtain a classification of each tweet in the corpus according to the “Information”—“Action” categories, in order to detect whether a tweet refers to an event or it has only an informative-disclosure purpose. It seems particularly interesting to understand how and to what extent people and organizations are playing a more active role in shaping the process of responding locally and internationally to climate change. Explicit intention to act or inform had been captured by hand coding of a randomly selected sample of tweets and then the classification had been extended to the whole corpus through a supervised machine learning method. Overall, our classification supervised model has produced satisfactory results.
Highlights
In 2015, the United Nation General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)1 aiming at ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities, and tackling climate change
Explicit intention to act or inform had been captured by hand coding of a randomly selected sample of 1584 tweets and the classification had been extended to the whole corpus through a supervised machine learning method
Through hand coding we found very few tweets that talked about concrete actions, potentially falling into the clicktivism/slacktivism (Morozov, 2009) phenomenon, i.e. many users retweeted but there is little concrete commitment or, in general, a willingness to act
Summary
In 2015, the United Nation General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aiming at ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities, and tackling climate change. In the monitoring the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development it seems relevant Ulrich Beck’s conceptual framework for the study of local responses to global risks, and climate change. According to Beck et al (2013) this approach falls short in relation to the global nature of this risk. Studies should be able to relate climate risk to the generative process encouraging the forming of cosmopolitan communities, i.e. facing a global risk should be mapped in terms of cultural and political changes, and especially of those changes advocating a global perspective. Emancipatory catastrophism implies a recognition of the limits of current knowledge and investing in a medium term scenario (the two generations), halfway between the short term horizon of political urgency and the long term span of technical approaches (Groves, 2019)
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