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Why Should We Change Our Perception Toward the Climate Change?

Student: Mikhaylova Alexandra

Supervisor: Daria Maltseva

Faculty: International laboratory for Applied Network Research

Educational Programme: Applied Statistics with Network Analysis (Master)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2021

Master Thesis: Why should we change our perception toward the climate change? The research problem is unawareness of certain aspects of climate change highlighted by scientists and influencing the global warming. The hypothesis of my work is that Instagram users, which represent English speaking community, are unaware on certain aspects of climate change proved by scientists and influencing the global warming. The subject of the research is perception of climate change via Instagram under the post related to climate change and global warming by all users using English language. The object of my research is Instagram’s posts related to climate change and global warming. Research Tasks: 1. To measure perception of climate change and global warming by the analysis of posts on the devoted topic via Instagram. 2. To get the idea of the facts most associated with the topic of climate change and global warming by the Instagram users. 3. To check whether Instagram users associate climate change with the global warming. 4. To extract the facts most associated with the topic by the scientific research. 5. To compare the facts obtained from the scientific research with the perception of the Instagram users and to understand how regular people aligned with the scientific community.

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