Mapping wind-power controversies on social media: Facebook as a powerful mobilizer of local resistance

Kristian Borch, Anders K. Munk and Vibeke Dahlgaard

Energy Policy, 2020, vol. 138, issue C

Abstract: 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?

Keywords: Strategic communication; Wind turbines; Social acceptance; Energy planning; Socio-technical controversy; Social media; Wind power resistance; Facebook; Mapping controversies; Anti-Wind power viewpoints; Qualitative discourse analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111223

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