The Aznalcóllar mine in twitter years after the spill: Spontaneous or induced socio-environmental controversy?
Abstract
Social networks have become in recent years a growing vehicle of communication, which has caused the media and journalism have assumed as a channel. In this work we have analyzed the repercussion of the environmental catastrophe that occurred in 1998 on the Guadiamar River (Andalusia), which went through well-identified phases that included the possibility of the reopening of the mine, using a comparison between the news of press and the content of Twiter. The objective was to analyze if it was a spontaneous controversy of public debate or induced and encouraged by certain protagonists. The methodology included the use of specific software for the analysis of tweets. The results show an evolution of the information from the journalistic scope to the tweets carried out preferably by the political parties.
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