Mapping Demonstrations of a Sustainability Policy Crisis

Online and Offline Events during the Dutch Nitrogen Crisis

Master thesis (2022)

Authors

M. Hendrikse Technology, Policy and Management

Contributors

T. Verma Policy Analysis - TPM (supervisor 1)
J. Lieu Organisation & Governance - TPM (supervisor 2)
N. Doorn Ethics & Philosophy of Technology - TPM (coach)
Faculty
Technology, Policy and Management
Copyright: © 2022 Mila Hendrikse
Topic modelling Sentiment analysis Codebook Nitrogen Crisis
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Published Date

18-10-2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Technology, Policy and Management

Abstract

in this research, I study the Nitrogen Crisis by comparing Twitter content to real-life events, answering the following research question: How does the intensity of emotions and discussed topics on social media relate to the characteristics of real-life demonstrations during a sustainability policy crisis? To characterise online events, sentiment analysis and topic modelling are applied to analyse tweets about the nitrogen crisis to paint a picture of what subjects were discussed online, and how people are feeling about them. To characterise offline events, a codebook is developed with categories that reveal information on the scale, intensity and extremism during real-life demonstrations. The most promising finding is that topic models with higher numbers of topics but lower coherence scores prove to be more interesting sources of information on underlying topics and trends on Twitter.