TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping wind-power controversies on social media: Facebook as a powerful mobilizer of local resistance
AU - Borch, Kristian
AU - Munk, Anders Kristian
AU - Dahlgaard, Vibeke
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Social media is a powerful communication tool through its universality and ease of access, which potentially has a huge impact on implementation of wind power. This study investigate a large corpus of Danish Facebook pages advocating anti-wind power viewpoints, distinguishing between localisation, different user groups, subjects and activity types. In doing this the following questions are answered: How localised are wind protests on Facebook?; To what extent can we perform a qualitative discourse analysis on different groups of Facebook users?; What can be said about the differences between community and cross-cutting Facebook users?; How are the voiced concerns articulated?; How are concerns managed by Facebook users?
AB - Social media is a powerful communication tool through its universality and ease of access, which potentially has a huge impact on implementation of wind power. This study investigate a large corpus of Danish Facebook pages advocating anti-wind power viewpoints, distinguishing between localisation, different user groups, subjects and activity types. In doing this the following questions are answered: How localised are wind protests on Facebook?; To what extent can we perform a qualitative discourse analysis on different groups of Facebook users?; What can be said about the differences between community and cross-cutting Facebook users?; How are the voiced concerns articulated?; How are concerns managed by Facebook users?
U2 - 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111223
DO - 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111223
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0301-4215
VL - 138
JO - Energy Policy
JF - Energy Policy
M1 - 111223
ER -