Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values
Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” This article examines the the socio-political dimension of fracking as manifested in the UK press at three key temporal points in the debate on the practice. Three newspaper corpora were ana...
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| author | Jaspal, Rusi Turner, Andrew Nerlich, Brigitte |
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| description | Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” This article examines the the socio-political dimension of fracking as manifested in the UK press at three key temporal points in the debate on the practice. Three newspaper corpora were analysed qualitatively using Thematic Analysis and Social Representations Theory. Three overarching themes are discussed: “April-May 2011: From Optimism to Scepticism”; “November 2011: (De-)Constructing and Re-Constructing Risk and Danger; “April 2012: Consolidating Social Representations of Fracking.” In this article, we examine the emergence and inter-relations between competing social representations, discuss the dynamics of threat positioning and show how threat can be re-construed in order to serve particular socio-political ends in the debate on fracking. |
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| spelling | nottingham-33742020-05-04T16:53:00Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3374/ Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values Jaspal, Rusi Turner, Andrew Nerlich, Brigitte Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” This article examines the the socio-political dimension of fracking as manifested in the UK press at three key temporal points in the debate on the practice. Three newspaper corpora were analysed qualitatively using Thematic Analysis and Social Representations Theory. Three overarching themes are discussed: “April-May 2011: From Optimism to Scepticism”; “November 2011: (De-)Constructing and Re-Constructing Risk and Danger; “April 2012: Consolidating Social Representations of Fracking.” In this article, we examine the emergence and inter-relations between competing social representations, discuss the dynamics of threat positioning and show how threat can be re-construed in order to serve particular socio-political ends in the debate on fracking. White Horse Press 2014-10-01 Article PeerReviewed Jaspal, Rusi, Turner, Andrew and Nerlich, Brigitte (2014) Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values. Environmental Values, 23 (5). pp. 501-527. ISSN 1752-7015 fracking YouTube climate change http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ev/2014/00000023/00000005/art00003?token=004e199187eef969a6720297d7634737b2e2b2f2441514257496d3f6a4b4b6e6e42576b6427383 doi:10.3197/096327114X13947900181473 doi:10.3197/096327114X13947900181473 |
| spellingShingle | fracking YouTube climate change Jaspal, Rusi Turner, Andrew Nerlich, Brigitte Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values |
| title | Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values |
| title_full | Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values |
| title_fullStr | Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values |
| title_short | Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values |
| title_sort | fracking on youtube: exploring risks, benefits and human values |
| topic | fracking YouTube climate change |
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