| Description |
1 online resource |
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Emerald points |
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Emerald points.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Tweeting the Environment #Brexit; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; Part 1; 2 The Environment and Politics; 2.1. The Global Rise of Environmental Awareness, Movements and Politics; 2.2. Environmental Awareness and the Politicisation of the Environment in the UK; 2.3. What Does the Environment Mean for the UK's EU Membership?; 3 Twitter, the Media Ecology and Environmental Communication; 3.1. Twitter Communication Studies -- The Current State of Play; 3.2. Studies of Environmental Communication on Twitter |
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6 Sparse 'Communities' and Their Green Bridges in Twitter Networks6.1. Previous Studies -- SNA of Social Media; 6.2. The Formation of Sparse 'Communities'; 6.2.1. Sparse 'Communities'; 6.2.2. Loosely Connected or Isolated 'Communities'; 6.2.3. Lack of Interactions and One-way Information Flow; 6.3. The Prominence of two Major Green Camps; 6.4. Isolated State of News Media and Journalists; 6.5. Exclusion of Established Political Parties and Isolation of Non-Green Politicians; 6.6. Conclusion; 7 Influential Social Actors: Competing for Discourses on Twitter |
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7.1. Political Parties and Politicians7.2. The ENGOs Camp; 7.3. News Media and Journalists; 7.4. Seven Other Categories of Influential Social Actors; 7.5. Conclusion; Part 3; 8 Twitter and Environmental Politics; 8.1. The Influence of Social Context; 8.2. The Role of the 'Technological Affordances' of Twitter; 8.3. Old and New Players on Twitter; 8.4. Conclusion: The Intertwining of Social Media Communication and Offline Reality; 9 Social Media Research: Towards an Inductive Approach; 9.1. The Methodological Challenges; 9.2. The Inductive Approach in Action -- Let the Data Tell us the Story |
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9.2.1. Research Process9.2.2. The Use of Mixed-Methods and Computational Applications to Explore the Data; 9.2.3. The Role of the Literature; 9.3. The Advantages and Limitations of our Inductive Approach; Bibliography; Index |
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Part 24 Environmental Discourses on Twitter; 4.1. Dichotomised Claims in the Pre-Referendum Discourses: Remain for Green Versus Leave for Green; 4.2. Dominant Claims of Remain for Green on the Referendum day; 4.3. A Radical Shift in the Environmental Discourses after the Referendum Day; 4.4. Weak Trends of the Discussions on Six Environmental Topics; 4.5. Conclusion; 5 Elite Domination in the Asymmetrical Twitter Space; 5.1. Asymmetric Structure of Twitter Communication; 5.2. Decentralisation and Anarchy on Twitter; 5.3. Attention-Driven Prominence of Elites |
| Summary |
This book maps Twitter discourses on marginalised environmental concerns during the UK's 2016 EU referendum campaign. Focusing on EU institutional influence in British environmental protection policy and charting the roles played by ENGOs and British political parties, it reveals how British environmental politics extended onto Twitter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 5, 2018) |
| Subject |
European Union -- Great Britain.
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Big data.
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Communication in politics -- Technological innovations -- Great Britain.
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Environmental policy -- Great Britain.
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Internet in political campaigns -- Great Britain.
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Political campaigns -- Technological innovations -- Great Britain.
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Social media -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zuo, Landong, author
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| ISBN |
1787564991 (electronic bk.) |
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9781787564992 (electronic bk.) |
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