Prelims

Jingrong Tong (Brunel University London, UK)

Landong Zuo (IT Solution Architect, UK)

Tweeting the Environment #Brexit

ISBN: 978-1-78756-502-9, eISBN: 978-1-78756-499-2

Publication date: 8 October 2018

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Tong, J. and Zuo, L. (2018), "Prelims", Tweeting the Environment #Brexit, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xvii. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-499-220181001

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TWEETING THE ENVIRONMENT #BREXIT

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TWEETING THE ENVIRONMENT #BREXIT

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JINGRONG TONG

Brunel University London, UK

LANDONG ZUO

IT Solution Architect, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication

To Daniel

Acknowledgements

The book originates from the authors’ paper presented at the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) Annual Conference in Leicester, 2017. The authors would like to thank Jen McCall of Emerald Publishing for her enthusiasm and support for this book project. Thanks also go to Rachel Ward of Emerald Publishing for her assistance. The authors want to thank the anonymous reviewer for their comments on the book proposal and thank Brian Keegan of University of Colorado Boulder for his suggestions on how to present network graphs in greyscale in Gephi. They also want to thank Sue Sparks for copy editing the book. The authors are indebted to open-source applications including Twitter4J, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Gephi and Inskape and their contributors.

List of Figures

Chapter 1
Figure 1	Daily Trend of Environmental Tweets One Month Before and After the Referendum (x-Axis: Dates; y-Axis: Number of Tweets).	6
Chapter 4
Figure 2	Types of Themes in the Randomly Selected Sample Before, During and After 23 June 2016.	38
Chapter 5
Figure 3	Types of Users Whose Tweets Were Retweeted (Top 0.4%), Mentioned (Top 2%) and Favoured (Top 0.2%) Most.	73
Figure 4	Trends of Tweets by Top 10 ENGOs, Politicians, Political Parties and News Media.	76
Figure 5	The Core Egonets of 16 Accounts Connected with Political Parties before (and on) the Referendum Day.	80
Chapter 6
Figure 6	The Full (Above) and Core (Below) Egonets of Top 10 Politicians before (and on) the Referendum Day.	95
Figure 7	The Core Egonets of Top 10 Online Media before (and on) the Referendum Day.	98
Figure 8	The Core Egonets of Top 10 News Media before (and on) the Referendum Day.	104
Figure 9	The Core Egonets of Top 10 Journalists before (and on) the Referendum Day.	106

List of Tables

Chapter 4
Table 1	Top 10 Most Popular Users Before the Referendum Day and Their Representative Tweets.	41
Table 2	Top 10 Most Popular Users on the Day of the Referendum and Their Tweets.	50
Table 3	Top Ten Most Popular Users After the Referendum Day and Their Representative Tweets.	56
Chapter 5
Table 4	Statistics of Original Tweets and Retweeted Tweets (Decimal = 1).	71
Table 5	Top 10 Active and Popular Users.	75
Table 6	Top 10 Politicians, ENGOs, Political Parties, News Media, Online Media, and Journalists.	78
Table 7	Top 10 Most Frequently Mentioned Users and Top 10 Users They Most Frequently Mentioned.	82
Chapter 6
Table 8	Categories of 107 Influential Social Actors.	91
Table 9	Statistics for the Networks Surrounding the Eight Groups of Key Actors before (and on) (above) and after (below) the Referendum Day (Decimal = 3).	92
Chapter 7
Table 10	The Number of Original Tweets Published by the Twitter Accounts of Four British Political Parties and Selected Politicians and the Number of Their Retweets.	116

Book Chapters

Prelims

Chapter 1 Introduction

Part 1

Chapter 2 The Environment and Politics

Chapter 3 Twitter, the Media Ecology and Environmental Communication

Part 2

Chapter 4 Environmental Discourses on Twitter

Chapter 5 Elite Domination in the Asymmetrical Twitter Space

Chapter 6 Sparse ‘Communities’ and Their Green Bridges in Twitter Networks

Chapter 7 Influential Social Actors: Competing for Discourses on Twitter

Part 3

Chapter 8 Twitter and Environmental Politics

Chapter 9 Social Media Research: Towards an Inductive Approach

Bibliography

Index