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ToolsWaller, Laurie and Chilvers, Jason (2023) Climate change assessments, publics and digital traces of controversy: An experiment in mapping issues with carbon dioxide removal researchers. Science & Technology Studies, 36 (1). pp. 2-23. ISSN 2243-4690
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Abstract
Recent scientific assessments of climate change have shifted towards evaluating solutions for removing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CDR). This paper reports a participation experiment in which we involved an interdisciplinary group of researchers in mapping issues relating to two CDR approaches: afforestation and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). We describe the responses of individual researchers when presented with visualisations aggregated from posts about afforestation and BECCS on the platform Twitter. We then compare the researchers’ responses with a qualitative analysis of a subset of the Twitter data. The analysis highlights challenges the researchers experienced in identifying issues and relating these visualisations to their own research on afforestation and BECCS. We discuss the prospects for bringing experimental approaches to mapping issues, publics and participation into closer relation with science and technology assessments. The paper concludes with reflections on the value of qualitative traditions of STS research for digital controversy analysis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | he Natural Environment Research Council funded the research reported on in this paper (grant number: NE/P019951/1). The research also benefited from UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) Phase 4 funding (EPSRC grant reference EP/S029575/1). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2025 18:30 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Feb 2025 01:18 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98414 |
| DOI: | 10.23987/sts.107662 |
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