Climate change is a big topic to tagle. I had a hard time to find one specific area to focus on because all of them sounds severe enough to draw attention toward them.  That lead me to a question: Climate change already here, but why people aren't care enough about climate change? This question leads me to another area of research and open up some possibilities for my thesis.

So I started to look into articles that talk about the concern of why we don't care about climate change. One of the article mentions "The thing is, we do care. It’s just that we don’t see any good solution being put forward". Looking back to articles posted on websites, medias and news, negative comments, predictions and communication about climate change flooded all over the place. The way that media communicate with public just aren’t opening the dialogue in a way that the average person can relate to, and feel that they can make a positive change.

Hence, I want to explore how language framing will affect public's perception about climate change. Are we able to provoke positive change by framing climate change in a way that people can relate to?  For the next week, I will do a quick user test on the power of language framing by showing multiple pictures related to climate change but show both negative and positive slogan.

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Things that work well

1. using Notion to organize my notes and documents

1. Notion provides template for thesis planning which is very well organized.
2. I'm using a table to collection all my research into one place so it will be easier for me to look up to a specific research later on
3. Notion allows page in a database reference to another page from another database which give me more control to navigate through different documents.

2. Ask myself "WHY"

1. I wasn't very sure what to do next until I ask myself "why people don't care about climate change". This question lead me into a totally different perspective and open up a new path for my thesis research.

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Things that didn't work

Notion workspace is not open to public, I will need to add member into the workspace manually. It is not a best chose for file sharing with public.

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What is the next step

1. User testing: The effect of language framing.
2. Cognitive science research: How to convince anyone to do anything

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