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Industry, settlement and society Filippo Donisi / Lorenzo Fantetti / Federica Fragapane / Emanuele Luppino / Francesco Majno

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Cape Wind project «The first offshore wind energy project in united states coastal waters»

Aim

Where

Coverage of 75% of the Nantucket Sound, Massachussets (Usa) Cape Cod area and Nantucket Sound maritime area, betwenn Martha's Vineyard e Cod peninsula and Martha's Vineyard Nantucket islands energy Cape and Nantucket islands. needs

When

2001-2011

INTERESTED COUNTIES Barnstable County, Dukes County and Nantucket County INTERESTED TOWNS

Mashpee, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Edgartown

BOSTON

Dimensions AREA

62 km²

CAPE COD

PEAK OF PRODUCTION

454 MW

MINIMUM DISTANCE FROM COAST

7 km MARTHA’S VINEYARD

NANTUCKET

TURBINE

130

ESTIMATED COSTS

2,5 Mld $

DIAMETER

111 m

145 m

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Protocol Query: “cape wind” controversy

Which are the main actors of this controversy?

DMI Harvester Wikipedia page analysis + references analysis

CORPUS Alchemy

Versus

semantic actors analysis

actors individuation

Are there some connections between the controversy timeline and the Google searches?

cfr

Controversy timeline

cfr

Google Insights for search analysis

personal actors analysis

How do different sources relate to the controversy?

Main actors don’t appear

Query sets

News queries set: “cape wind” controversy + “cape wind” project + “cape wind effects” “cape wind” project “cape wind” effects “cape wind” debate “cape wind” controversy “cape wind” benefits “cape wind” clean “cape wind” impacts “cape wind” damage “cape wind” property value “cape wind” environmental impacts “cape wind” energy cost “cape wind” wampanoag “cape wind” aesthetic pollution

DMI Harvester

DMI Harvester

DMI Harvester

CORPUS 1

CORPUS 2

CORPUS 3

How do different sources communicate the controversy?

DMI Compare Lists

DMI Compare Lists

DMI Compare Lists

CORPUS 1+2

CORPUS 2+3

CORPUS 1+3

Are there differences between different formations?

COMMON LINKS + LINKS SELECTED FROM THE CORPUS (MAIN ACTORS’ SITES) NEW CORPUS Links analysis

creation of an excel file divided in categories

sankey visualization

CORPUS DIVIDED IN SPECIFIC CORPUS CORPUS FOR FORMATIONS CORPUS A

CORPUS B

CORPUS C Crawler Crawler Gephi

Alchemy keywords analysis

entities analysis

links network

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Actor analysis Describing the main actors using different analysis

We developed a critical analysis of the controversy, built from the wikipedia’s cape wind controversy page and his references.

The analysis was made in order to understand the complexity of the actors’ network.

And to give them an exactly position inside one of the two fighting formations.

The main actors are divided into opponents and supporters.

This is our personal actor‘s analysis.

It’s supposed to be like the point of view of someone really focusing on the event. as second step we developed a superficial analysis of the controversy.

A semantic analys could be considered as a thoughless analysis.

We obtained a corpus of links using DMI Harvester from the query “cape wind” controversy.

We defined an actors list from the keyword list of Alchemy.

The number of counts defined the importance on the web of the different actors.

The actor network obtained using the two methods of analysis were compared.

The next question was: who is talking about the controversy? Which are the sources?

We identified the sources’ network using the same query with Versus .

A different visualization of the same semantic results produced by Versus was developed.

Query: “cape wind” controversy Wikipedia page analysis + references analysis

personal actors analysis

DMI Harvester CORPUS

cfr

Alchemy

Versus

semantic actors analysis

actors individuation

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Actor analysis Critical analysis to define the main actors

Cape Wind Associates and its chief Jim Gordon Born in 2001, for the proposal of Cape Wind project, from the evolution of Energy Management Inc.

Deval Patrick (1956-) 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts (from 2007).

Member of the Democratic Party.

SUPPORTING Cape Wind project

Ken Salazar (1955-) Current United States Secretary of the Interior. Member of the Democratic Party.

Clean Power Now Non-profit grassroots organization, based in Hyannis (City of Barnstable, Cape Cod), supporting renewable energy projects and policies.

Greenpeace Non-governmental environmental organization based in Amsterdam.

“Energy for life” “Cape Wind is proposing America’s first offshore wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal.

Miles from the nearest shore,130 wind turbines will gracefully harness the wind to produce up to 420 megawatts of clean, renewable energy. In average winds, Cape Wind will provide three quarters of the Cape and Islands electricity needs.”

The proposal of Cape Wind is based on the developing of clean energy sources to mitigate climate changes, and in particular would play a local improvement for energy indipendence, energy costs, jobs and economy and navigation.

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Actor analysis Critical analysis to define the main actors

Cape Wind Associates and its chief Jim Gordon Born in 2001, for the proposal of Cape Wind project, from the evolution of Energy Management Inc.

Deval Patrick (1956-) 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts (from 2007).

Member of the Democratic Party.

SUPPORTING Cape Wind project

Ken Salazar (1955-) Current United States Secretary of the Interior. Member of the Democratic Party.

Clean Power Now Non-profit grassroots organization, based in Hyannis (City of Barnstable, Cape Cod), supporting renewable energy projects and policies.

Greenpeace

Cape Wind project played an important role during the Massachussets political campaign in 2007.

“The governor understands that the cost of inaction and leaving ourselves at the mercy of future spikes in oil and gas prices is too great. […] Who is opposing Cape Wind would jeopardize the progress we have made in creating new jobs and supporting clean-energy-related businesses in Massachusetts.”

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Actor analysis Critical analysis to define the main actors

Cape Wind Associates and its chief Jim Gordon Born in 2001, for the proposal of Cape Wind project, from the evolution of Energy Management Inc.

Deval Patrick (1956-) 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts (from 2007).

Member of the Democratic Party.

SUPPORTING Cape Wind project

Ken Salazar (1955-) Current United States Secretary of the Interior. Member of the Democratic Party.

Clean Power Now Non-profit grassroots organization, based in Hyannis (City of Barnstable, Cape Cod), supporting renewable energy projects and policies.

Greenpeace Non-governmental environmental organization based in Amsterdam.

Approval of Cape Wind project in April 2010.

“We're trying to pioneer a new path to move America forward in obtaining cleaner energy, a healthier environment and putting people to work to harness the inexhaustible winds that we're blessed with off the Cape.” &$-,&,.,&#$*( '!(!)*$"!

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Actor analysis Critical analysis to define the main actors

Cape Wind Associates and its chief Jim Gordon Born in 2001, for the proposal of Cape Wind project, from the evolution of Energy Management Inc.

Deval Patrick (1956-) 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts (from 2007).

Member of the Democratic Party.

SUPPORTING Cape Wind project

Ken Salazar (1955-) Current United States Secretary of the Interior. Member of the Democratic Party.

Clean Power Now Non-profit grassroots organization, based in Hyannis (City of Barnstable, Cape Cod), supporting renewable energy projects and policies.

Greenpeace Non-governmental environmental organization based in Amsterdam.

“YES!” Leading supporters to Cape Wind project, cite that wind's ability to displace oil and gas consumption with clean, locally produced energy and claim the project is the best option for much needed new generating capacity in the region. $.%!'&" '!(!)*$"!

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Actor analysis Critical analysis to define the main actors

Cape Wind Associates and its chief Jim Gordon Born in 2001, for the proposal of Cape Wind project, from the evolution of Energy Management Inc.

Deval Patrick (1956-) 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts (from 2007).

Member of the Democratic Party.

SUPPORTING Cape Wind project

Ken Salazar (1955-) Current United States Secretary of the Interior. Member of the Democratic Party.

Clean Power Now Non-profit grassroots organization, based in Hyannis (City of Barnstable, Cape Cod), supporting renewable energy projects and policies.

Greenpeace Non-governmental environmental organization based in Amsterdam.

“Victory for Cape Wind and America's clean energy future” Supporting Cape Wind project as an achievement of renewable sources of energy and clean industry around the world: “America needs to lead the world in solving global warming, and projects like Cape Wind are exactly how we can begin to do for that.” %!+&*,&" '!(!)*$"!

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Actor analysis Critical analysis to define the main actors

“Cape Wind gives wind power a bad name” Main opposition to Cape Wind project and support to long-term preservation of Nantucket Sound, known worldwide for its wildlife and natural beauty: the Alliance is in favor of green and sustainable energy and consider the project as the right idea in the wrong location; they claim potential adverse economic, environmental, historical, touristic and visual impacts (the turbines would be easily seen from most of Alliance members' residences).

Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound composed by:

William Koch chief of solid fuel supply company Oxbow Corp.

American businessman, resident of Cape Cod.

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Federally recognized Native Americans population located in Massachusetts.

Massachussets Fishermen's Partnership Organization of commercial fishermen's associations from all gear and geographic sectors of the Massachusetts fishing industry.

Edward “Ted" Kennedy (1932-2009) United States Senator from Massachusetts and member of the Democratic Party.

Mitt Romney (1947-) American businessman and politician, was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) for the Republican Party.

OPPOSING

Cape Wind project

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Actor analysis Critical analysis to define the main actors

Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound composed by:

“…I would have put it in someone else's backyard!”

William Koch chief of solid fuel supply company Oxbow Corp.

American businessman, resident of Cape Cod.

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Due to his billionaire business empire based on oil refining and fuel supply with Oxbow Corp., he donated $1.5 million to the Alliance. He is opposing the project citing the eyesore of the turbins from his Cape Cod house.

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Federally recognized Native Americans population located in Massachusetts.

Massachussets Fishermen's Partnership Organization of commercial fishermen's associations from all gear and geographic sectors of the Massachusetts fishing industry.

Edward “Ted" Kennedy (1932-2009) United States Senator from Massachusetts and member of the Democratic Party.

Mitt Romney (1947-) American businessman and politician, was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) for the Republican Party.

OPPOSING

Cape Wind project

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Actor analysis Describing the main actors using different analysis Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound composed by:

William Koch chief of solid fuel supply company Oxbow Corp.

American businessman, resident of Cape Cod.

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Federally recognized Native Americans population located in Massachusetts.

Nearly unanimously, the local fishermens has spoken out against the project, citing the fact that up to 60% of their annual income comes from catch caught on Horseshoe Shoals, which they claim would disappear and would have to be replaced by steaming to fishing grounds farther out to sea if the project is completed.

Massachussets Fishermen's Partnership Organization of commercial fishermen's associations from all gear and geographic sectors of the Massachusetts fishing industry.

Edward “Ted" Kennedy (1932-2009) United States Senator from Massachusetts and member of the Democratic Party.

Mitt Romney $.%!'&" '!(!)*$"!

(1947-) American businessman and politician, was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) for the Republican Party.

OPPOSING

Cape Wind project

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Actor analysis Describing the main actors using different analysis Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound

The campaign to stop the wind farms was started

by Cape Cod merchants and wealthy landowners.

composed by:

William Koch chief of solid fuel supply company Oxbow Corp.

American businessman, resident of Cape Cod.

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Till his death, in August 2009, US Senator Ted Kennedy has faught the project to rise the issue of private property value and aesthetic pollution from the south coast of Cape Cod, where the Kennedy’s residence is located.

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Federally recognized Native Americans population located in Massachusetts.

Massachussets Fishermen's Partnership Organization of commercial fishermen's associations from all gear and geographic sectors of the Massachusetts fishing industry.

Edward “Ted" Kennedy (1932-2009) United States Senator from Massachusetts and member of the Democratic Party.

Mitt Romney (1947-) American businessman and politician, was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) for the Republican Party.

OPPOSING

Cape Wind project

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Actor analysis Describing the main actors using different analysis Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound composed by:

William Koch chief of solid fuel supply company Oxbow Corp.

“I’m just not comfortable with the idea that people could develop whatever they'd like in the waters off our shore without us having a say on it.”

Romney stated that the proposed Cape Wind project would depress property values and damage the local economy, which heavily depends on tourism; he has described the area as pristine and a national treasure".

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American businessman, resident of Cape Cod.

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Federally recognized Native Americans population located in Massachusetts.

Massachussets Fishermen's Partnership Organization of commercial fishermen's associations from all gear and geographic sectors of the Massachusetts fishing industry.

Edward “Ted" Kennedy (1932-2009) United States Senator from Massachusetts and member of the Democratic Party.

Mitt Romney (1947-) American businessman and politician, was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) for the Republican Party.

OPPOSING

Cape Wind project

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Actor analysis Describing the main actors using different analysis

Using the query “cape wind” controversy with DMI Harvester we obtained our corpus of links.

We defined a list of the main actors from the Alchemy semantic analysis and his keyworld’s list output.

The number of counts defined the importance for the web of the different actors.

“cape wind” controversy DMI Harvester http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind http://www.justmeans.com/The-Cape-Wind-Controversy/31679.html http://video.foxnews.com/v/4171845/cape-wind-controversy/ http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/01/cape-wind-controversy-hits-new-low-illustrates-cost-of-nimbyism/ http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/04/cape-cod-wind-farm-controversy-still-roiling-nantucket-sound/ http://www.facebook.com/notes/representative-frank-i-smizik/cape-wind-controversy/230406110349862%3Fref%3Dnf http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/cars-transportation/cape-wind-project-approved-460410 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/wanted-buyer-for-controve_n_799082.html http://www.mvtimes.com/marthas-vineyard/article.php?id=7015 http://www.capewind.org/news637.htm http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/28/cape.cod.wind.farm/index.html http://windsector.tumblr.com/post/4794350242/cape-wind-ten-years-of-debate http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sdn/articles/files/Phadke%20Steel%20Forests.pdf http://greenmien.knowledgemosaic.com/2011/11/03/spooky-scary-controversy-around-cape-wind/ http://www.grist.org/article/griscom-windmill http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/cape-wind-controversy-continues-as-second-turbine-deployed-video.html http://www.capecodtoday.com/news248.htm http://law.du.edu/forms/writing-competitions/documents/winners/19.pdf http://environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=4590 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmental_law/2009/01/cape-wind-contr.html http://www.ackmag.com/2011/09/07/an-energy-epic-cape-spin/ http://www.justmeans.com/The-Cape-Wind-Controversy--Counter-opposition/31754.html http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=special01 http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/windpower/docs/KempEtAl-OffshoreWindDebate05.pdf http://www.masterresource.org/2011/11/cape-wind-air-trafficsafety/http://www.examiner.com/conservative-independent-in-boston/feds-move-forward-on-cape-wind-project-despite-controversy http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/10/10/cape_wind_backers_blew_right__by_cost/ http://blogs.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2011/07/19/capewind/

http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/massmarkets/2011/03/08/falmouth-turbine-controversy-could-hinder-the-expansion-of-wind-energy-in-the-state/ http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/16239 http://www.capespin.com/category/notes-from-the-field/ http://rappaportbriefing.net/2011/04/28/bogged-in-bureaucracy-lessons-learned-from-cape-wind/ http://seekingalpha.com/article/202297-controversy-isn-t-over-for-cape-cod-offshore-wind-project http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/wind http://www.southernct.edu/WACC/uploads/textWidget/wysiwyg/documents/Ryan_paper.pdf http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97849&page=1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/cape-wind-gets-permit-for_n_805475.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/science/earth/05wind.html http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/178/ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qf9d_cape-wind-the-fight-for-the-future_news http://www.bc.edu/dam/files/schools/law/lawreviews/journals/bcealr/31_2/03_TXT.htm http://www.masterresource.org/category/windpower/cape-wind-project-windpower/ http://www.capewind.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%26name%3DNews%26file%3Dindex%26catid%3D%26topic%3D5%26allstories%3D1 http://www.capewind.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=&topic=5&allstories=1 http://eponline.com/articles/2009/05/06/cape-wind-controversy.aspx http://energy.aol.com/2011/05/06/blowing-hot-and-cold-on-wind-farm-cost-questions/ http://gonzagalawreview.org/2011/09/12/offshore-wind-energy/ http://www.yourpublicmedia.org/content/northeast-environmental-hub/cape-cod-wind-proposal-shaping-national-debate http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/29/cape.wind.ceo.profile/index.html http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1365 http://www.commonwealthmagazine.org/News-and-Features/Features/2010/Summer/First-gubernatorial-debate-to-take-place-Monday.aspx http://counterwind.blogspot.com/ http://www.squidoo.com/cape-cod-wind-farm http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/wind-power/despite-controversy-first-us-offshore-wind-farm-approved/ http://www.masstech.org/offshore/CapeWindFAQs.html http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/09/10/10climatewire-cape-wind-proposal-faces-a-renewed-political-25840.html?pagewanted=all

Alchemy Keywords SELECTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN ACTORS

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Actor analysis Main actors’s importance on the web

Cape Wind Associates and its chief Jim Gordon

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Born in 2001, for the proposal of Cape Wind project, from the evolution of Energy Management Inc.

Deval Patrick (1956-) 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts (from 2007).

Member of the Democratic Party.

SUPPORTING Cape Wind project

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Ken Salazar (1955-) Current United States Secretary of the Interior. Member of the Democratic Party.

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Clean Power Now Non-profit grassroots organization, based in Hyannis (City of Barnstable, Cape Cod), supporting renewable energy projects and policies.

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Greenpeace Non-governmental environmental organization based in Amsterdam.

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Actor analysis Main actors’s importance on the web Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound composed by:

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William Koch chief of solid fuel supply company Oxbow Corp.

American businessman, resident of Cape Cod.

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Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Federally recognized Native Americans population located in Massachusetts.

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Massachussets Fishermen's Partnership Organization of commercial fishermen's associations from all gear and geographic sectors of the Massachusetts fishing industry.

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Edward “Ted" Kennedy (1932-2009) United States Senator from Massachusetts and member of the Democratic Party.

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Mitt Romney 2

(1947-) American businessman and politician, was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) for the Republican Party.

OPPOSING

Cape Wind project

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Source analysis Versus visualization of the different sources

The next question was: who is talking about the controversy?

Who are the sources?

Which kind of sources they are?

Which are the main themes they are talking about?

The Versus results were categorized into a list of actors (sources).

The list is: media, Research center, social network, wikipedia, company, blog, cape wind company (main actor) journal.

We identified the sources network using the same query with Versus .

A different visualization of the same semantic results produced by Versus was developed.

We decided not to use anymore Versus because the website of alliance to protect nantucket sound (one of the main actor) didn’t appear.

“cape wind” controversy Versus

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Source analysis Different visualization of the Versus entities’ belonging to sources

A different visualization of the same semantic results produced by Versus was developed.

The keywords of the Versus semantic analysis are displayed on the horizontal axis.

The Versus paramater of belonging shows relevance of a keyword to the actor (source).

The visualization was made to understand in a better way which kind of theme every actor is talking about.

For instance the belonging of the Alliance to protect Nantucket Sound to blog and company is very low and to media is very high.

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ENTITIES 1. wind power 2. nantucket sound 3. cape wind project 4. fossil fuel 5. alliance to protect nantucket sound 6. offshore wind farm 7. clean power now 8. water offshore project 9. conservation law foundation 10. international wildlife coalition 11. greenhouse gas emissions 12. wampanoag indian tribes 13. strategic partnerships 14. federal policy 15. greenpeace 16. massachusetts 17. senator ted kennedy

18. radar 19. draft environmental impact 20. obama 21. advisory council on historic preservation 22. kilowatt hour 23. energy management inc 24. oil 25. electric power 26. bill koch 27. general electric 28. department of energy 29. public policy 30. national environmental policy act 31. secretary ken salazar 32. kennedy family 33. environmental impacts study 34. local issue

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Source analysis Different visualization of the Versus entities’ belonging to sources

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Source analysis Different visualization of the Versus entities’ belonging to sources

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Source analysis Different visualization of the Versus entities’ belonging to sources

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New corpus creation We couldn’t use our corpus on Versus, let’s move foward!

We decided not to use anymore Versus because the website of some of the main actors of our controversy didn’t appear, like the “Alliance to protect Nantucket Sound”.

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MAIN ACTORS’ SITES DON’T APPEAR IN THIS CORPUS

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New corpus creation The new corpus was defined starting from three general queries

We were not satisfied with the results we had achieved because some of the main actors didn’t appear at all in the corpus.

So we decided to create a set of general queries to reach the maximum number of possible actors.

Three queries (controversy, project and effects) and the corpus derived wth DMI Harvester.

The common links were extracted with DMI Compare lists.

The new corpus is composed by the common links and the links of other main actor’s websites (selected from the corpus analysis).

The new corpus describes a more comprehensive actor’s network.

News queries set: “cape wind” controversy + “cape wind” project + “cape wind effects” DMI Harvester

DMI Harvester

DMI Harvester

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DMI Compare Lists

DMI Compare Lists

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COMMON LINKS + LINKS SELECTED FROM THE CORPUS (MAIN ACTORS’ SITES) NEW CORPUS

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New corpus creation The new corpus was defined starting from three general queries

“cape wind” project

DMI Compare List

“cape wind” controversy

DMI Compare List

“cape wind” effects

DMI Compare List

NEW CORPUS COMMON LINKS

SELECTED ACTORS’ SITES

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Corpus analysis New corpus classification to better understand the sources

We read every link of the new corpus to define a comprehensive list of the sources and their features.

Everything was group together into an excel file.

The categories are: source tipology, field, formation, specific controversies.

The source tipology category reveals the real identity of every actor and allows us to categorize them into wider cluster of sources.

The formation category defines the right position of every actor into the cape wind controversy: opponents, neutral or supporters.

We understood trough the specific controversies category which specific controversy every actor is speaking about.

The sankey diagrams were used to visualize the excel’s dataset.

NEW CORPUS Links analysis creation of an excel file divided in categories sankey visualization

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Corpus analysis Sources analysed with categories

The categories are: source tipology, field, formation, specific controversy.

FORMATIONS FIELD

SPECIFIC CONTROVERSY

SOURCE TYPOLOGY Fonte justmeans.com foxnews.com triplepundit.com

Tipologia specifica della fonte green energy network televison channel new media company

Tipologia generale della fonte environmental news news company

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politicsdaily.com facebook.com/repfrankismizik thedailygreen.com huffingtonpost.com

internet newspaper facebook's page green blog green internet newspaper

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capewind.org cnn.com windsector.com grist.org treehugger.com capecodtoday.com greenmien.knowledgemosaic. com

cape wind company cable news channel green blog green magazine leading media outlet for sustainability community web site

cape wind company news environmental blog environmental news company local information

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Specific corpus Alchemy analysis for the three formation’s minor corpus

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Specific corpus Keyword’s sum and average relevance for opponents and supporters

Then we subjected these corpus to semantic analysis conducted with Alchemy, from which we obtained keywords and entities.

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The keywords were represented in the form of circles whose size is determined by counting.

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Also for the entities we made a semantic analysis of the three corpus.

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Starting from the previuos visualization we developed a new type of display. filling the areas below the entities allow a comparison among the different relevance of the entities belonging to the same formations.

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COMMA— SEPARATED VALUES

Gephi

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Actors’ net: some steps before visualizing Gephi early visualizations

The first visualizations were representative of just the actors’ network.

We wanted to give to our actors a deeper connotation, dividing them into the formations.

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Actors’ net: some steps before visualizing Gephi early visualizations

ALLIANCE

saveoursound.org

CAPE WIND ASSOCIATES

capewind.org POLITICS DAILY

BOSTON.COM

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Actors’ net: some steps before visualizing Gephi early visualizations

We developed a new visual hierarcy in order to better visualize the actors in the space.

LEVEL 1, NODES WITH GRADE-1 LINKS LEVEL 3, NODES WITH GRADE-6 LINKS

LEVEL 9, NODES WITH GRADE(>18) LINKS

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Constructing an alternative Geometric settings and the diameter+orbit system diameter+orbit system

DIMENSIONS minimum diameter unit: 5 mm, corresponding to level 1 of the grid

EVERY CIRCLE HAS A DIAMETER WHOSE DIMENSIONS ARE DEPENDING ON THE WEIGHT OF ITS OUTGOING AND INCOMING LINKS

THE LINKS’ WEIGHT

THE ORBIT

counter: 5 stroke: 5 pt

THE STROKE VALUE IS BASED ON THE COUNTER DATE CONTAINED IN THE GEPHI FILE.

EVERY ORBIT MEANS THAT A LINK REACHED THE NODE

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MAIN SUBJECTS ALLIANCE: saveoursound.org CAPE WIND: capewind.org

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Actors net new visualization

CAPE WIND

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Actors net new visualization GREENPEACE

INDIANCOUNTRYTODAY

FOXNEWS

GREENMIES

SAVEOURSEASHORE.ORG

CLEANPOWERNOW

CNN

THEDAILYGREEN

ENERGY.AOL

MASTERRESOURCE

POLITICSDAILY HUFFINGTON POST COUNTERWIND. BLOGSPOT

CAPE WIND

LAWPROFESSORS. TYPEPAD

AOL TREEHUGGER

CAPECODTODAY EXAMINER

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Conclusions

Cape Wind.

It’s interesting to notice the complete absence of outlinks; anyway CapeWind.org still remains relevant, thanks to his several inlinks. Most of them are from Alliance and other opponents.

Alliance.

It distributes the higher number of outlinks, but it does not receive the same inlinks’ number.

Others.

There’s a very strong presence of local news opponents to the project. Major news websites are more equal in links distribution and link to both the principal subjects

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Conclusion

Some interesting results emerge from our analysis.

From the sankey diagram results that the major new’s websites talk about the controversy in a neutral way.

Diffences emerge if compare with the local websites, whose articles point of view reveals in same cases a strong opinion agaist the project.

The strongest opposition comes from the environmental bloggers.

Regarding the specific controversies there aren’t evident differences among the formations.

From the keyword analysis emerges how neutral sources deal with more general issue (for example the rewnewable energy issue), opponents are more concentrate onspecific controversy and supporters talk about opponents and benefits As for the relation between different sources and issues, is evident how supporters often talk about almost all the specific controversy, except for the environmental hazard issue that is approached by oppositors