In this first blog post on our new Climate Constituencies Project, we look at how the Clean Power Plan is being discussed via social media at the federal level in the US. Building off of all of the organizations identified as collaborators, opponents, or those particularly active on social media from informant interviews, the diagram above presents the Clean Power Plan Federal Mention Network. In other words, it depicts who mentioned whom when discussing the Clean Power Plan on Twitter through April 2016.
As can be seen, there is high reciprocity and low centralization in this network, indicating that there is disbursed cooperation among different actors. Many of energy and business interests are engaged in the dandelion-shaped cluster in the upper right, while most environmental organizations are connected through less dense clusters to the bottom left. Future research will assess how this network changes when we look at the universe of groups discussing the Clean Power Plan.
--Dana R. Fisher and Lorien Jasny
As can be seen, there is high reciprocity and low centralization in this network, indicating that there is disbursed cooperation among different actors. Many of energy and business interests are engaged in the dandelion-shaped cluster in the upper right, while most environmental organizations are connected through less dense clusters to the bottom left. Future research will assess how this network changes when we look at the universe of groups discussing the Clean Power Plan.
--Dana R. Fisher and Lorien Jasny
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