气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): United in criticism: The discursive politics and coalitions of Australian energy debates on social media

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DOI	10.1016/j.erss.2022.102591
	United in criticism: The discursive politics and coalitions of Australian energy debates on social media
	Arranz, Alfonso Martinez; Askland, Hedda Haugen; Box, Yasmin; Scurr, Ivy
发表日期	2024
ISSN	2214-6296
EISSN	2214-6326
起始页码	108
卷号	108
英文摘要	This paper applies social network analysis (SNA) and natural language processing (NLP) tools within a traditional discourse analysis framework to better understand the polarisation in the online debate around climate and energy issues. We draw on tweets over 2019-2021 to characterise a large network of over 10,000 highly followed Twitter users that participate in the Australian climate and energy debate on this social media platform. Through community detection algorithms, we identify five discourse coalitions. Drawing on quantitative analysis of hashtags and mentions, topic modelling of their tweets, and identifying the most central users, we characterise four as anti-coal and one as anti-renewables. The former focus on current affairs, grassroots activism, science and technology, and Green politics, while the latter is made up by conservative commentators, including climate change deniers, who emphasise coal as a valuable commodity. A bipolar distribution of opinions is thus easy to discern, but the widespread picture of echo chambers seems inaccurate, since there is significant exchange and interconnection between opposing poles. Another distinct finding is that the debate, albeit civil compared to results from other studies, is focused on criticism and outrage. Those opposed to renewables talked more about wind power than those pro-renewables, and coal opponents spoke mostly about coal. Technological choices with ambiguous positioning, e.g., carbon capture and storage, were ignored across all coalitions. Giving neutral or positive themes greater circulation appears desirable but may require much more interventionism than Twitter and other social media are prepared to undertake.
英文关键词	Coal; Community detection; Topic modelling; Discourse analysis
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:001197537500001
来源期刊	ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/289776
作者单位	University of Melbourne; University of Newcastle; University of Melbourne
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Arranz, Alfonso Martinez,Askland, Hedda Haugen,Box, Yasmin,et al. United in criticism: The discursive politics and coalitions of Australian energy debates on social media[J],2024,108.
APA	Arranz, Alfonso Martinez,Askland, Hedda Haugen,Box, Yasmin,&Scurr, Ivy.(2024).United in criticism: The discursive politics and coalitions of Australian energy debates on social media.ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE,108.
MLA	Arranz, Alfonso Martinez,et al."United in criticism: The discursive politics and coalitions of Australian energy debates on social media".ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE 108(2024).