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doi:10.22028/D291-35973
Title: | Not All Places Are Equal: Using Instagram to Understand Cognitions and Affect towards Renewable Energy Infrastructures |
Author(s): | Vespa, Mariangela Kortsch, Timo Hildebrand, Jan Schweizer-Ries, Petra Volkmer, Sara Alida |
Language: | English |
Title: | Sustainability |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 7 |
Publisher/Platform: | MDPI |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Free key words: | renewable energy infrastructures people–place relationships social media analysis mapping posts |
DDC notations: | 150 Psychology |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | The research on people–place relations makes an important contribution to the understanding of the public responses to renewable energy technologies (RETs). Social media not only provides easy access to the sentiments and attitudes of online users towards RETs, but social media content can also shape the discourse, both on- and offline, about RETs. Hence, social media content analysis provides valuable insights into the public responses to RETs. However, as of now, only a small number of studies have investigated people–place relations in the context of the energy transition via online content. To address this lack of knowledge, this study aims to increase the understanding of people–place relations by investigating the relationship between the place scales mentioined in Instagram posts (categorized from local to planet) and the sentiments that are expressed in said posts, depending on different energy infrastructures (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, powerlines, and renewable energy in general). Our analysis of 1500 Instagram posts shows that the place scales that are mentioned in the Instagram posts are related to some differences in the post emotionality, and that these effects differ across the different hashtags that are related to RETs. By using a sociocognitive approach, this study is the first to investigate Instagram posts in the context of the energy transition and people–place relationships. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.3390/su14074071 |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-359732 hdl:20.500.11880/32789 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-35973 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Date of registration: | 12-Apr-2022 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Psychologie |
Professorship: | HW - Keiner Professur zugeordnet |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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