‘This loopy idea’ an analysis of UKIP’s social media discourse in relation to rurality and climate change

2016/05/03 by Matthew Reed · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Environmental Science · Engineering · #Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy #Sustainability and Climate Change Governance #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Rurality #Newspaper #Theme (computing) #Climate change #Skepticism #Independence (probability theory) #Renewable energy #Political science #Sociology #Relation (database) #Media studies #Law #Rural area #Computer science #Engineering #Epistemology

paper · doi:10.1080/13562576.2016.1192332

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the way that United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) attempted to communicate its policies and messages about the topic of renewable energy during 2013–2014. Renewable energy is a fruitful topic to consider as it has a strategic importance in the discussion of the future of the UK. The emergent theme from the analysis was not only rurality and renewable energy but the connection of the issue to scepticism about climate change. This paper uses the qualitative analyses the social media posts and a sample of the linked materials, with newspaper coverage, to reveal the key themes in the UKIP discourse.

Citations

• Doomed to Failure? UKIP and the Organisational Challenges Facing Right-Wing Populist Anti-Political Establishment Parties
• Working Class Votes and Conservative Losses: Solving the UKIP Puzzle
• The New Politics of Resentment: Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe

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• UK Independence Party [wikipedia]

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