Felix Böhm

Introducing a special issue that analyses the climate discourse on social media, the text discusses medial logics of discourse from the standpoint of internet and media linguistics. In this process the authors formulate a heuristic for analysing communicative acts on social media. This encompasses three levels: platform-specific opportunities, communicative practices, and discourse-specific characteristics. The heuristic is then applied to a tweet written in the context of a severe weather event and also used to introduce the contributions to this special issue. mehr