‘Doomscrolling’ in my backyard: Corrosive online communities and contested wind development in rural Ohio

Fergen, Joshua T.; Jacquet, Jeffrey B.; Shukla, Ritvik

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102224

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“…Social media contribute to increasing sustainability awareness and often do so by evoking emotions [32,49,50]. On Twitter alone, there are over 500 million tweets (messages) per day [51], of which about one-third are emotionally charged [20].…”

Section: Community Acceptance and The Social Media Discourse On Susta...mentioning

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From tweets to insights: A social media analysis of the emotion discourse of sustainable energy in the United States

Corbett

Savarimuthu

2022

Energy Research & Social Science

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Section: Community Acceptance and The Social Media Discourse On Susta...mentioning

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From tweets to insights: A social media analysis of the emotion discourse of sustainable energy in the United States

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Savarimuthu

2022

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…It often consists of an open platform where different statements can be publicly shared, and the sharing is facilitated by the platforms themselves; they change and extend the way attitudes regarding wind energy are formed, with opportunity for citizen groups to reach a wide audience and form movements, particularly counter movements that oppose specific government policies [100], such as proposed wind power projects. These potentials lead to novel phenomena and dynamics in opinion formation about wind energy projects [101]. Researchers have started drawing on social media as a novel research site.…”

Section: Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The protest against wind energy on social networks is usually tied to groups and pages related to specific wind turbine sites [101]. Studying how Facebook acts as a platform for mobilizing local resistance in Denmark, Borch et al [108] used network analysis to assess whether users were active (activity defined as commenting or posting) in one or more forums.…”

Section: Social Mediamentioning

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Developing a Theoretical Framework to Explain the Social Acceptability of Wind Energy

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The social acceptability of wind farms has been researched for several decades now, with the first research tracing back to the 1980s. This paper aims to deliver a literature review within the structural framework proposed by the paper of variables influencing the acceptability of wind farms. The large amount of research published on the social acceptability of wind farms requires an effort to identify and categorise variables to deliver a holistic understanding of opposition and support to wind energy. We classify the variables into three main categories: first, ‘psychological variables’, including perceived benefits and costs, emotions, and attitudes; second, ‘contextual variables’, including community energy schemes and media influence; and finally, third, ‘personal resources’, including income or wealth, place of residence, and relevant knowledge in relation to the wind farm. In agreement with other scholars, we argue that NIMBYism (not in my backyard) is an outdated and simplistic explanation for opposition to wind farms. Instead, we provide a theoretical framework to explain the acceptability of wind energy and show how these variables might influence both acceptance and opposition.

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“…According to the definition made by Oxford Languages, it is the act of obsessively scrolling through social media or news feeds about negative news (Oxford Languages, n.d.). Research shows that not only in Türkiye but also in other countries around the world, social media platforms are used extensively as a public discourse tool when there is a current development or a chaotic event (Borch et al, 2020; Fergen et al, 2021). The motivations behind the public search for information about this development or event are explained as a collective experience of negative information seeking (Huang, 2023).…”

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Doomscrolling and mental well‐being in social media users: A serial mediation through mindfulness and secondary traumatic stress

Taskin,

Yildirim Kurtulus,

Satici

et al. 2024

Journal Community Psychology

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Considering that large‐scale events such as natural disasters, epidemics, and wars affect people all over the world through online news channels, it is inevitable to investigate the impact of following or avoiding negative news on well‐being. This study investigated the effect of doomscrolling on mental well‐being and the mediating role of mindfulness and secondary traumatic stress in social media users. A total of 400 Turkish adults completed scales to assess doomscrolling, mental well‐being, mindfulness, and secondary traumatic stress. The average age of the participants was 29.42 (SD = 8.38; ranged = 18−65). Structural equation modeling was conducted to examine the mediating roles of mindfulness and secondary traumatic stress in the relationship between doomscrolling and mental well‐being. Mindfulness and secondary traumatic stress fully mediated the relationship between doomscrolling and mental well‐being. The results are discussed in light of existing knowledge of doomscrolling, mental well‐being, mindfulness, and secondary traumatic stress. High levels of doomscrolling, which is related to an individual's mental well‐being, can predict the individual's distraction from the here and now and fixation on negative news. This situation, in which mindfulness is low, is related to the individual's indirect traumatization and increased secondary traumatic stress symptoms in the face of the negative news he/she follows.

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‘Doomscrolling’ in my backyard: Corrosive online communities and contested wind development in rural Ohio

Cited by 17 publications

References 70 publications

From tweets to insights: A social media analysis of the emotion discourse of sustainable energy in the United States

From tweets to insights: A social media analysis of the emotion discourse of sustainable energy in the United States

Developing a Theoretical Framework to Explain the Social Acceptability of Wind Energy

Doomscrolling and mental well‐being in social media users: A serial mediation through mindfulness and secondary traumatic stress

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