The Climate Change Collaboratory (www.ecoresearch.net/triple-c) aims to strengthen the relations between environmental stakeholders. The project provides tools to manage expert knowledge, a Facebook application in the tradition of games with a purpose, and a context-sensitive environment for collaboratively creating and editing documents.

1. Networking Knowledge – Networking People:
New Media for Collective Climate Change Action
Project Results | Climate Change Collaboratory
www.ecoresearch.net/triple-c
Arno Scharl
MODUL University Vienna
Department of New Media Technology

2. Project Deliverables
MAJOR GOALS OF
TRIPLE-C
• Manage Climate
Change Knowledge
• Support Stakeholder
Communication and
Collaboration
• Provide Alternative
Instruments for the
Social Sciences

3. Climate Quiz

4. Climate Quiz

5. Main Project Deliverables
ADVANCES AND
EXTENSIONS
• Additional Sources
Science News
Social Media Platforms
Abstract Database
• User Management
• Editing Environment
Collaborative
Context-Aware
Real-Time

6. Content Analysis
• Identify major topics associated with renewable
energy by different stakeholder groups:
environmental organizations, news media,
companies (Fortune 1000), blogs, social media
like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google+
• Compute attention and sentiment (positive vs.
negative) towards these energy-related topics
• Visualize semantic and geographic trends by
stakeholder group, and investigate the drivers
and impacts of these trends
• Create shared meaning and improve
understanding of how others perceive the
benefits and challenges of renewable energy,
as well as other climate change related topics