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Report: Tracing online information about windpower

Published: 02 March 2023
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Researchers from Mistra Environmental Communication has released a report about information and disinformation regarding windpower.

The report is issued by a project financed by the strategic reserve of the programme. Using digital methods the project has collected data from Google Search, Facebook, Youtube and Twitter.

The project explores the role of Google Search in advancing different kinds of propositions about windpower in Sweden, which understandings of windpower emerges in relations between search terms and results, and between search terms, automatic search suggestions and related searches.

The project also mapped central subjects in Swedish discussions about windpower on social media.

The report can be downloaded here.


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