{"id":1685,"date":"2017-02-01T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2017-02-02T23:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T04:21:07","slug":"just-say-no-to-the-dakota-access-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/2017\/02\/01\/just-say-no-to-the-dakota-access-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting #NoDAPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am collecting data about the conversation on the Dakota Access Pipeline and the intersection between environmental and social issues. I chose this hashtag because the Dakota Access Pipeline spans a variety of issues. I am curious to see the nature of the conversation and what aspects people are most concerned and most vocal about.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the tweets, the majority of \u00a0people are tweeting about a divestiture from Wells Fargo, accompanied by\u00a0the hashtag #StartWithSeattle. The tweets seem to be directed at several Seattle City Council members. Some are replying to one of the Council members mentioned in the tweets. Other tweets, not focused on the Seattle vote, include mostly Trump-related hashtags. Most of the tweets are from regular people, but some come from environment-focused news accounts. The tweets are coming in at approximately 100 tweets per minute.<\/p>\n<p>Many users retweeted the following, tagging their respective City Council members: &#8220;We need you to vote YES today to DIVEST $3B from @WellsFargo #StartWithSeattle #NoDAPL.&#8221; It is interesting to see how the hashtag has been overtaken (at least temporarily) by a single political cause in a single city. I was expecting a more diverse conversation, or more news and updates about the situation. None of the tweets are geotagged, but looking at the user-provided location information, they are coming from around the country\u2014only a handful are actually from Seattle.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1asKehS4OckvibYwoBmlEwZfjTBo5_wBjklnEazTJm0I\/pubhtml?gid=400689247&#038;amp;single=true&#038;amp;widget=true&#038;amp;headers=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>Searching for the hashtag (#nodapl) reveals mainly stories from small, local newspapers about protests or other activities happening in a particular area. Only a couple of stories in the first few pages of results are from major national news sources. Some stories cover celebrities involvement in or statements about the protests. The search also turned up multiple results from issue-focused blogs like Grist (environmental) and Socialist Alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for &#8216;dakota access pipeline&#8217; revealed more in-depth articles and more major news sources. The second result, from the Seattle Times, explains the glut of tweets related to divestment. Two city council members have proposed to remove almost $3 billion of the city&#8217;s money from Wells Fargo in protest of the bank&#8217;s financing of the Dakota Access Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>A time-constrained search between January and April of 2007 doesn&#8217;t return any information about the pipeline or protests, as the project has only been underway since 2014. The results it did return, however, include sites and news sources I encountered searching for recent news: Truthdig, Democracy Now, and Pioneer Post, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Given how often the topic has come up on social media, televised, and print news, I was somewhat surprised how few articles there were from major news sources. Although there are newer, potentially more immediate issues to cover following the inauguration, I would have expected the coverage to be more complete.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the data gathered in class, it seems to closer to viewing of &#8220;live&#8221; data than &#8220;lively,&#8221; as Marres and Weltevrede describe it. The conversation (at least over a period of a couple hours) seemed to be echoing the same issue, if not the same exact message. It was difficult to determine the composition of the group using the hashtag, but I would assume they are relatively similar (at least in terms of their stance on relevant issues). From more lively data, I would expect to see a greater degree of exchange between users and a wider variety within the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Works Cited<\/p>\n<p>Epstein, Richard. 2017. &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Big Move on the Dakota Access Pipeline.&#8221; <em>Forbes,\u00a0<\/em>February 1, sec. Opinion.\u00a0http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/richardepstein\/2017\/01\/26\/trumps-big-move-on-dakota-access-pipeline\/#1f3a25cd2bc0<\/p>\n<p>Mapes, Linda. 2017. &#8220;Seattle could pull billions out of Wells Fargo Bank over Dakota Access Pipeline investment.&#8221; <em>Seattle Times<\/em>, January 31, sec. Environment, Local News. http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/divest-from-dakota-access-pipeline-city-funds-targeted\/<\/p>\n<p>Marres, Noortje, and Esther Weltevrede. 2013. &#8220;Scraping the Social?&#8221;\u00a0<em>Journal of Cultural Economy<\/em> 6 (3): 313-35.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, Damon. 2017. &#8220;Ronda Rousey spotted at Standing Rock Protests against Dakota Pipeline.&#8221; <em>Fox News, <\/em>January 25, sec. Sports. http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/2017\/01\/25\/ronda-rousey-spotted-at-standing-rock-protests-against-dakota-pipeline.html<\/p>\n<p>Medina, Daniel. 2017. &#8220;Dakota Access Pipeline: Easement Expected to Allow Project to be Completed.&#8221; <em>NBC News, <\/em>February 1. http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/dakota-pipeline-protests\/dakota-access-pipeline-easement-expected-allow-project-be-completed-n715226<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am collecting data about the conversation on the Dakota Access Pipeline and the intersection between environmental and social issues. I chose this hashtag because the Dakota Access Pipeline spans a variety of issues. 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