Analysis of search queries suggested by a Swedish climate obstruction network

Abstract

This data comprises data traces related to search queries used in climate obstruction. It is based on "klimatsans" (Climate Sense or Climate Reason; translated from Swedish, cf. Vowles & Hultman, 2021), a Swedish blog and network which exists since 2014 and runs a Swedish-language blog and submits opinion pieces and letters to the editor to various Swedish news outlets. The stated aims of the network amount to first-level obstruction, i.e. they reject the scientific consensus that increased atmospheric CO2 leads to climate change.

The data concerns how the network throughout its various publications invite readers to “google” certain words (keyphrases). The data set includes:
1) all blog posts published on klimatsans.com from January 2014 to June 2022;
2) all hyperlinks from the blog;
3) tabulation, count, and coding of all search queries suggested in the blog, as identified by following after the Swedish imperative verb "googla";
4) tabulation of all uses of 25 selected keyphrases in Swedish newspapers;
5) results of search engine results pages for these 25 queries from Google and DuckDuckGo (each run three times: in plain, in verbatim using quotation marks, and preceded by the term "googla") (original data available via Sünkler et al., 2023);
6) tabulation and coding of domains frequently targeted by hyperlinks and/or listed in search engine results pages.

Furthermore, the data set includes some scripts for replication, an extensive README file for methodological additions, and details on coding schemes.

The data was originally collected to investigate to trace data voids through the texts of their creators or proponents. This provides insights into how data voids are created, promoted, used, and if they do not disappear also abandoned.

Keywords

Social research; Climate; Internet use; Communication and information studies; Media literacy; Communication research; Climate obstruction; Search engine; Climate denial

Published in

Publisher: Swedish National Data Service

SLU Authors

• Rödl, Malte

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Information Studies
Communication Studies

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/zb1v-ba15

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/140438