A clash of socio-technical systems: Exploring actor interactions around electrification and electricity trade in unfolding low-carbon pathways for Ontario

Rosenbloom, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.015

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“…In order to effectively conduct the qualitative content analysis of news items, this protocol will rely on a news data base: 1) the ProQuest Canadian Newsstream (formerly the Canadian Newsstand Complete) and 2) Google News. The Canadian Newsstream via ProQuest web interface was chosen because it provides not only the largest newspaper, video, and magazine article data bases in Canada (full text items of nearly 300 unique newspapers and news organizations), but the timeline for many of the articles goes beyond many of the other archive bases (some items date back to the 1970s) (Rosenbloom, 2018 ; Rosenbloom, 2019 ). Furthermore, the ProQuest Canadian Newsstream is able to provide access to other major Canadian news sources (e.g., the Globe & Mail, CBC News, and Maclean's) while at the same time allowing many regional media sources to be easily attainable (e.g., the Hamilton Spectator, the Medicine Hat News, and the Vancouver Courier) (Rosenbloom, 2018 ).…”

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The overdose epidemic: a study protocol to determine whether people who use drugs can influence or shape public opinion via mass media

Jozaghi¹

2022

Health Justice

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Background We are currently witnessing an ongoing drug overdose death epidemic in many nations linked to the distribution of illegally manufactured potent synthetic opioids. While many health policy makers and researchers have focused on the root causes and possible solutions to the current crisis, there has been little focus on the power of advocacy and community action by people who use drugs (PWUDs). Specifically, there has been no research on the role of PWUDs in engaging and influencing mass media opinion. Methods By relying on one of the longest and largest peer-run drug user advocacy groups in the world, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), newspaper articles, television reports, and magazines that VANDU or its members have been directly involved in will be identified via two data bases (the Canadian Newsstream & Google News). The news articles and videos related to the health of PWUDs and issues affecting PWUDs from 1997 to the end of 2020 will be analyzed qualitatively using Nvivo software. Discussion As our communities are entering another phase of the drug overdose epidemic, acknowledging and partnering with PWUDs could play an integral part in advancing the goals of harm reduction, treatment, and human rights.

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The overdose epidemic: a study protocol to determine whether people who use drugs can influence or shape public opinion via mass media

Jozaghi¹

2022

Health Justice

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“…In order to effectively conduct the qualitative content analysis of news items, this protocol will rely on a news data base: 1) the ProQuest Canadian Newsstream (formerly the Canadian Newsstand Complete) and 2) Google News. The Canadian Newsstream via ProQuest web interface was chosen because it provides not only the largest newspaper, video, and magazine article data bases in Canada (full text items of nearly 300 unique newspapers and news organizations), but the timeline for many of the articles goes beyond many of the other archive bases (some items date back to the 1970s) [29][30]. Furthermore, the ProQuest Canadian Newsstream is able to provide access to other major Canadian news sources (e.g., the Globe & Mail, CBC News, and Maclean's ) while at the same time allowing many regional media sources to be easily attainable (e.g., the Hamilton Spectator, the Medicine Hat News, and the Vancouver Courier) [29].…”

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The Synthetic Opioid Epidemic: A Study Protocol to Determine Whether People Who Use Drugs Can Influence or Shape Public Opinion via Mass Media

Jozaghi

VVANoD

2021

Preprint

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BackgroundWe are currently witnessing an ongoing drug overdose death epidemic in many nations linked to the distribution of illegally manufactured potent synthetic opioids. While many health policy makers and researchers have focused on the root causes and possible solutions to the current crisis, there has been little focus on the power of advocacy and community action by people who use drugs (PWUDs). Specifically, there has been no research on the role of PWUDs in engaging and influencing mass media opinion.MethodsBy relying on one of the longest and largest peer-run drug user advocacy groups in the world, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), newspaper articles, television reports, and magazines that VANDU or its members have been directly involved in will be identified via two data bases (the Canadian Newsstream & Google News). The news articles and videos related to the health of PWUDs and issues affecting PWUDs from 1997 to the end of 2020 will be analyzed qualitatively using Nvivo software.ResultsNot Applicable because it is a study protocol and data has not been collected and analyzed. ConclusionAs our communities are entering another phase of the drug overdose epidemic, acknowledging and partnering with PWUDs could play an integral part in advancing the goals of harm reduction, treatment, and human rights. Trial registrationNot applicable because it uses secondary data.

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“…The craft of cementing ideas in discourses makes "unthinking them very hard indeed, since it is difficult to imagine outside the categories" in which those ideas are presented (Peet et al 2010, 35). The transformation of energy systems (or lack thereof) is routinely cloaked in discourses as actors use certain frames to validate their energy choices (Rosenbloom 2019). Political actors deploy discourses to introduce problems, interpret events, and elevate certain solutions while discarding competing options (Hunsberger 2014).…”

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“…An energy system consists of “the actors and artefacts that together produce the societal function of energy” (Bosman et al 2014, 47). The complexity of modern energy systems lies in the fact that several sub‐systems, including electricity, buildings, and transportation, interact and overlap, simultaneously and continuously changing on various scales and in different geographies (Meadowcroft 2009; Rosenbloom 2019). This complexity led various schools of thought to analyze and predict transition pathways, following three co‐evolving approaches as shown in Figure 1: techno‐economic, socio‐technical, and political (Cherp et al 2018).…”

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“…We subscribe to Hajer and Versteeg's (2005, 175) definition of discourse as “an ensemble of ideas, concepts and categories through which meaning is given to social and physical phenomena, and which is produced and reproduced through an identifiable set of practices.” The craft of cementing ideas in discourses makes “unthinking them very hard indeed, since it is difficult to imagine outside the categories” in which those ideas are presented (Peet et al 2010, 35). The transformation of energy systems (or lack thereof) is routinely cloaked in discourses as actors use certain frames to validate their energy choices (Rosenbloom 2019). Political actors deploy discourses to introduce problems, interpret events, and elevate certain solutions while discarding competing options (Hunsberger 2014).…”

Section: Political Accents In Transition Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wandering identities in energy transition discourses: Political leaders’ use of the “we” pronoun in Ontario, 2009–2019

Mang‐Benza

Hunsberger

2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Analyzing discursive strategies helps demonstrate how power is exerted through politics. • Three ruling coalitions in Ontario strategically used universalizing language to promote very different energy policy regimes. • The "we" form in political discourse leaves room for ambiguous messages, implying benefits to all while obscuring differentiated impacts. This paper explores the use of universalizing language as a discursive strategy to promote shifts in energy policy. Building on scholarship that seeks to understand the political nature of energy transitions, including resistance to transitions, the role of the state, and implications for justice, we examine three phases of energy transition in Ontario in the period 2009-2019, focusing on the ways that three successive ruling coalitions used the first plural pronoun "we" to promote contrasting energy policy orientations. Our analysis of policy documents and government news releases confirms that all three coalitions used the "we" form as a strategic device to define priorities, prescribe courses of action, and broadcast achievements. However, they also used the ambiguity of the "we" form to obscure alternative perspectives, claim credit for rivals' accomplishments, and gloss over harmful and differentiated impacts of policy choices. The paper concludes by reflecting on broader questions about power and justice relevant to energy transition scholars.

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A clash of socio-technical systems: Exploring actor interactions around electrification and electricity trade in unfolding low-carbon pathways for Ontario

Cited by 35 publications

References 52 publications

The overdose epidemic: a study protocol to determine whether people who use drugs can influence or shape public opinion via mass media

The overdose epidemic: a study protocol to determine whether people who use drugs can influence or shape public opinion via mass media

The Synthetic Opioid Epidemic: A Study Protocol to Determine Whether People Who Use Drugs Can Influence or Shape Public Opinion via Mass Media

Wandering identities in energy transition discourses: Political leaders’ use of the “we” pronoun in Ontario, 2009–2019

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