Lone Sorensen

University of Leeds

Based in

United Kingdom
Europe

Dr Sorensen’s current research focuses on how the relationship between citizens, public representatives and social media platforms affects our ability to implement climate policy. Specifically, she looks at how citizens’ contestation of climate policies play out on online platforms that often privilege emotive and polarising content and anti-elitist and conspiratorial narratives and in a political context already characterised by democratic fracture and populist politics. She is particularly interested in how these dynamics relate to questions of knowledge, argumentation and political truth-telling. She is currently leading an AHRC-funded Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship titled ‘Mediated climate change politics in the post-truth era: the epistemology and performance of contested digital truth claims’.

A second strand of research investigates polarisation over climate policy and activism and queries how we might depolarise the current public debate on the issue. She is also currently exploring new creative methods of art and portraiture in the context of the above research.