R/data_ison.R
irps_nuclear_discourse.RdFollowing the 11 March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, there was a vigorous public debate in Germany about the future of nuclear energy. This network captures the discourse established by 337 actors, including individual politicians, experts, parties, and the media, and their claims about nuclear energy and German nuclear energy policy. These claims were with respect to 54 concepts coded, and could be supportive or critical, and could also be repeated.
data(irps_nuclear_discourse)#> # A dynamic, labelled, two-mode network of 337 speakers and 54 concepts and
#> 1164 claim ties from 2011-03-11 to 2011-06-30
#>
#> -- Nodes
#> # A tibble: 391 x 10
#> name type present politician govt coalition office org party power
#> <chr> <lgl> <lgl> <lgl> <lgl> <lgl> <lgl> <chr> <chr> <int>
#> 1 VfEW FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE NA FALSE VfEW <NA> 0
#> 2 Angela Merk~ FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE CDU 31 2
#> 3 Sunday Times FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE NA FALSE Sund~ <NA> 0
#> 4 SPD FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE SPD 32 1
#> 5 Norbert Röt~ FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE CDU 31 1
#> 6 Torsten Kra~ FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE NA FALSE Die ~ <NA> 0
#> # i 385 more rows
#>
#> -- Ties
#> # A tibble: 1,164 x 5
#> from to time increment default
#> <int> <int> <date> <int> <lgl>
#> 1 1 338 2011-03-11 -1 FALSE
#> 2 2 339 2011-03-12 1 TRUE
#> 3 3 340 2011-03-13 -1 FALSE
#> 4 4 341 2011-03-13 1 TRUE
#> 5 2 342 2011-03-13 -1 TRUE
#> 6 5 343 2011-03-13 1 TRUE
#> # i 1,158 more rows
#>Haunss Sebastian, James Hollway. 2023. "Multimodal mechanisms of political discourse dynamics and the case of Germany’s nuclear energy phase-out". Network Science, 11(2):205-223. doi:10.1017/nws.2022.31