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ArticleOxford open climate change2025

Role model narratives are underutilized in Instagram and TikTok climate action posts.

Julia Fine, Joshua Ettinger, Sri Saahitya Uppalapati, John Kotcher, Edward Maibach

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Article in Oxford open climate change, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Julia FineCenter for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4163-9033
Joshua EttingerCenter for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States.
Sri Saahitya UppalapatiCenter for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States.
John KotcherCenter for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States.
Edward MaibachCenter for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3409-9187

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Role model narratives-stories about specific people taking recommended actions-are a proven communication strategy for encouraging socially beneficial behaviors such as climate action. However, the extent to which climate activists share role model narratives on social media has yet to be investigated. To measure the prevalence of climate action role model narratives on social media, we manually collected Instagram and TikTok posts tagged with the hashtags #climateaction and #climateactivist (dated between August 2021 and October 2024) and conducted a content analysis of the posts (Instagram

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climate changecommunicationnarrativerole modelssocial media

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PMID41890210
PMCPMC13016701

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