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Is science to be trusted? How environmentally active youths relate to science in social media
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1495-8346
2025 (English)In: Public Understanding of Science, ISSN 0963-6625, E-ISSN 1361-6609, Vol. 34, no 1, p. 76-91Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Research has shown a great distrust among youths toward political representatives, who they demand should “listen to the science.” However, less research has been done on youths’ own trust in science. This study explores and explains how youths who are environmentally active in two different environmental youth organizations relate to science in social media, whether they trust science, and how youths’ relation to science creates a discursive context in which they may develop their identity. The study uses the approach of discourse analysis to examine social media content published on Facebook by Fridays for Future Sweden and Fältbiologerna (the Swedish Field Biologists). The study shows (i) how subject positions for scientists and youth are created in relation to one another based on different expressions of youths’ trust in science and(ii) how environmental youth organizations, by identifying with science, make youths important actors in the discourse on climate change.

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Sage Publications, 2025. Vol. 34, no 1, p. 76-91
Keywords [en]
discourse analysis, Fältbiologerna, Fridays for Future, science, social media, trust
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Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-113974DOI: 10.1177/09636625241249915ISI: 001234241600001PubMedID: 38807357Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85194886580OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-113974DiVA, id: diva2:1862074
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Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2021-00592Available from: 2024-05-29 Created: 2024-05-29 Last updated: 2025-01-24Bibliographically approved

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