Exploring the “Fukushima Effect”: Attitudes and opinions towards nuclear power and renewable energy and the emergence of a transnational algorithmic public sphere

(FAU Funds)

Project leader: Stephanie Evert
Project members: Stephanie Evert, Fabian Schäfer, Marc Stamminger, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Roberto Grosso, Reimar Zeh, Philipp Heinrich, Olena Kalashnikova, Christoph Adrian, Jonas Müller
Start date: January 1, 2017
End date: December 31, 2018
Extension Date: December 31, 2019
Acronym: EFE
URL: https://www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/projects/efe/

Abstract:

The digitalisation of society and media systems has had a major impact on (political) discourses and the formation of public opinion. The purpose of this project is to investigate the transnational algorithmic public sphere, a complex phenomenon that has arisen in an era of globalised mass media and social media connectivity across national borders. An interdisciplinary combination of computational linguistics, network visualisation, intercultural hermeneutics and communication science enables us to analyse and map the processes underlying this phenomenon. The project addresses the current political discussion on nuclear power and renewable energy in Germany and Japan following the Fukushima accident.

Publications:

Schäfer F.:
Medium als Vermittlung - Medien und Medientheorie in Japan
Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 2017
(Medien • Kultur • Kommunikation)
ISBN: 978-3-658-13624-6
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-13625-3
URL: http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658136246
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Schäfer F.:
Contentious Politics and the Emergence of a Connected and Transnational ‘Public Sphere’: ‘Connective Sociality’ and ‘Latent Public Opinion’ in Post-Democratic and Post-3/11 Japan
In: University of Tokyo (ed.): Universal Values in a Post-secular Era, Tokyo: Sobunsha, 2016, p. 35-70
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Schäfer F., Evert S., Heinrich P.:
Japan's 2014 General Election: Political Bots, Right-Wing Internet Activism and PM Abe Shinzō’s Hidden Nationalist Agenda
In: Big Data 5 (2017), p. 1 - 16
ISSN: 2167-6461
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Heinrich P., Adrian C., Kalashnikova O., Schäfer F., Evert S.:
A Transnational Analysis of News and Tweets about Nuclear Phase-Out in the Aftermath of the Fukushima Incident
Workshop on Computational Impact Detection from Text Data (Miyazaki, May 8, 2018 - May 8, 2018)
In: Andreas Witt, Jana Diesner, Georg Rehm (ed.): Proceedings of the LREC 2018 “Workshop on Computational Impact Detection from Text Data”, Paris: 2018
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Heinrich P., Schäfer F.:
Extending Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis for Exploring Japanese Social Media
4th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2018) (Takamatsu, September 17, 2018 - September 19, 2018)
In: Yukio Tono & Hitoshi Isahara (ed.): Proceedings of 4th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2018) 2018
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