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The authors investigate the public discourse surrounding the energy crisis and cost of living in the UK, aiming to reconcile pivotal issues and identify social actors involved. They utilize NLP techniques to provide critical insights for research on the energy crisis-cost of living nexus.
Samenvatting
The content delves into analyzing the public debate around the energy crisis and cost of living in the UK. It explores key topics, social actors, sentiment analysis, and issues related to sustainability, climate change, and economic impacts. The study utilizes a comprehensive methodology involving NLP techniques to extract insights from media discourse.
The analysis reveals a focus on internal politics, economic ramifications, and solutions like renewable energy amidst discussions about the energy crisis as a cost-of-living issue. Different newspapers exhibit varying perspectives on climate change solutions and political actors involved in addressing these challenges.
The study highlights how different media sources frame discussions around net zero policies, cost-of-living crises, and energy security issues. Sentiment analysis indicates political divisions in addressing these challenges across various newspapers.
Overall, the research provides valuable insights into media coverage of complex societal issues like energy crises and climate change debates while emphasizing the role of political actors in shaping policy responses.
Statistieken
"A corpus of 44,168 articles was collected from UK newspapers from January 2014 to March 2023."
"31,769 articles were included in the final corpus after filtering out irrelevant content."
"Metadata-based retrieval algorithm outperformed TF-IDF-based and Word-embedding-based retrievals with an F1 score of 0.657."
Citaten
"Given a cost-of-living crunch caused by the rocketing price of fossil fuels...an imaginative and proactive government would move to seize the moment." - The Guardian