Detecting the relevant groups involved in a controversy and their mutual relations
Classified under Mapping Approaches (Digital epistemology), Tools Applied (Digital methods, Issue crawler), Users (Journalists, Decision-makers)
SCENARIO OF USE
Controversies are spaces where groups struggle to find alliances, stabilize points of views and scientific findings, where organizations and institutions have specific interests, supporting research programs and specific innovation processes. Controversies, in other words, are places full of stakeholders. In this page, designed to provide resources in order to detect the stakeholders involved in your controversy, decision makers will find ways of mapping in a very quick way the web space of the controversies in which their institution is involved, while journalists will be able to detect and locate the relations among the institutions, the firms, the NGOs and other members civil society who are part of the contrversy they are reporting on.TOOLS AND EXAMPLES
The investigation of the stakeholders involved in a controversy is based on the use of the Issuecrawler, a software for locating Issue networks in the web.The Issue Crawler is Web network location and visualization software for journalists, decision makers, and other issue professionals. Enter URLs of organizations working in an issue area, and an issue network is returned in the form of a relational map like the one reported here, realized for a controversy case study on the reintroduction of the bear in the Italian Northern Region Trentino Alto Adige.- Issue Network for the controversy on the reintroduction of the bear in the Italian Trentino region - project Life Ursus. Stakeholders involved in the controversy are reckognizable in the map
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