Corrado Monti

Causal Modeling of Climate Activism on Reddit

Jacopo Lenti, Luca Maria Aiello, Corrado Monti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025 (WWW2025), ACM.

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Understanding why people mobilize for collective action requires linking online behavior to social position, exposure, and ideology. Using longitudinal Reddit data and Bayesian causal modeling, this research disentangles how media attention, climate experiences, and peer dynamics jointly shape participation in climate activism. The results highlight how information diffusion and class-linked engagement transform awareness into sustained political mobilization.

Posted on Fri 31 January 2025