Science and the social media in an African context: the case of the square kilometre array telescope

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dc.date.accessioned 2015-10-14 en
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-17T16:16:52Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-17T16:16:52Z
dc.date.issued 2015-10-14 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/1762
dc.description.abstract This study presents a media content analysis of representations of the Square Kilometre Array telescope on Twitter by South African users, drawing on a sample of 1,588 Tweets recorded over a period of 1 year from September 2011 to August 2012. The framing of the Square Kilometre Array was dominated by the site allocation process, which focused on the contestation between South Africa and Australia and formed a proxy discourse for politicosymbolic themes that framed the project as a symbol of African achievement. The overall composition of messages is dominated by large media firms, but there remains substantial scope for individual agency in shaping the discourse, particularly for high-profile users and leading science journalists. Microdeterminants also played a key role in shaping the virality of messages. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.publisher Sage en
dc.subject SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY (SKA) en
dc.subject SCIENCE en
dc.subject SOCIAL MEDIA en
dc.title Science and the social media in an African context: the case of the square kilometre array telescope en
dc.type Journal Article en
dc.description.version Y en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.Volume 37(6) en
dc.BudgetYear 2015/16 en
dc.ResearchGroup Education and Skills Development en
dc.SourceTitle Science Communication en
dc.PlaceOfPublication California, USA en
dc.ArchiveNumber 8841 en
dc.PageNumber 703-722 en
dc.outputnumber 7615 en
dc.bibliographictitle Gastrow, M. (2015) Science and the social media in an African context: the case of the square kilometre array telescope. Science Communication. 37(6):703-722. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/1762 en
dc.publicationyear 2015 en
dc.contributor.author1 Gastrow, M. en


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