Research interests
Jessica Robinson researches cross-border online political participation, with a focus on user practices in the Scandinavian region. She is interested in how – and if – the potential globality of the web actually manifests in online interactions and what the nature of these interactions means for the traditional definition of the public sphere.
Courses taught – Autumn 2023
MEVIT4810 – Introduction to media and communication research: Theory of science and methodology
MEVIT4320 – Political Communication: Opinion Processes and Influence
MEVIT1011 – Medieanalyse: Data- og innholdsanalyse
Background
Jessica Robinson holds a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. in media studies from the University of Oslo. She has a B.A. in journalism from Southern Oregon University, USA.
Previously, Jessica worked as a journalist for NPR stations in the western United States.
On Twitter: @jessixarobinson
Tags:
social media,
citizenship,
transnationalism,
digital media,
political communication,
participation,
public sphere,
polarization,
network analysis,
Twitter,
American politics
Publications
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Vågerö, Oskar; Bråte, Anders; Wittemann, Alexandra; Robinson, Jessica Yarin; Zeyringer, Marianne & Sirotko-Sibirskaya, Natalia
(2024).
Machine learning of public sentiments towards wind energy in Norway.
Wind Energy.
ISSN 1095-4244.
doi:
10.1002/we.2902.
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Across Europe, negative public opinion has and may continue to limit the deployment of renewable energy infrastructure required for the transition to net-zero energy systems. Understanding public sentiment and its spatio-temporal variations is as such important for decision-making and for developing socially accepted energy systems. In this study, we apply a sentiment classification model based on a machine learning framework for natural language processing, NorBERT, on data collected from Twitter between 2006 and 2022 to analyse the case of wind power opposition in Norway. From the 68,828 tweets with geospatial information, we show how discussions about wind power intensified in 2018/2019 together with a trend of more negative tweets up until 2020, both on a regional level and for Norway as a whole. Furthermore, we find weak geographical clustering in our data, indicating that discussions are country wide and not dominated by specific regional events or developments. Twitter data allow for detailed insight into the temporal nature of public sentiments and extending this research to additional case studies of technologies, countries and sources of data (e.g. newspapers, other social media) may prove important to complement traditional survey research and the understanding of public sentiment.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2023).
The Casual Observer: Low-Activity Twitter Users as Arbiters of (Mis)Information in the War in Ukraine.
Essachess - Journal for Communication Studies.
ISSN 2066-5083.
16(1),
p. 115–134.
doi:
10.21409/MVFN-PN09.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2023).
Global health, global networks: A multilingual network approach to covid-19 tweets in Norway, Korea, and Italy.
Health & New Media Research.
ISSN 2671-4124.
6(2),
p. 189–221.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2022).
‘Damn, Norway': Place Branding as a Function of Local Campaigns and Global Actors.
Fuori Luogo. Rivista di Sociologia del Territorio, Turismo, Tecnologia.
ISSN 2532-750X.
doi:
10.6093/2723-9608/9239.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2022).
George Floyd and cosmopolitan memory formation in online networks: A report from Northern Europe.
Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación: Mediterranean Journal of Communication.
ISSN 1989-872X.
13(2),
p. 185–199.
doi:
10.14198/MEDCOM.21834.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2022).
Fungible Citizenship: On the Internet No-One Knows You’re a Swede.
M/C.
ISSN 1441-2616.
25(2).
doi:
10.5204/mcj.2883.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2022).
"Same people, different bubbles: Contextual homophily and polarization among Scandinavians tweeting about U.S. elections." Presented at the Democracy and Digital Disintegration: Actors, Platforms, Citizens Symposium, Nov. 10, 2022, Stockholm.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2022).
"Monitorial–Cosmopolitans, Networked–Locals: The Case of Scandinavian Twitter Engagement With the 2020 US Election." Presented at the 72nd Annual ICA Conference, Paris, May 26-30, 2022.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin & Ihlen, Øyvind
(2021).
"Public health authorities in a global context: A multi-lingual network approach to corona discourse on Twitter." Presented at the ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference, Bucharest [Virtual], March 26-27, 2021.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin & Ihlen, Øyvind
(2021).
"The Presence of National Public Health Institutes in Twitter Discussions of COVID-19." Presented at the 71st Annual ICA Conference [Virtual], May 27-31, 2021.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2020).
"Skandinaver tvitret mer om USA-valget i 2016 enn russiske troll".
Forskersonen.no.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2020).
"Ordinary Scandinavians tweeted more about the American 2016-elections than the Russian trolls accused of interference".
sciencenorway.no.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2019).
"When the vote goes global: Expressions of political identity across borders in election discourses." Presented at the PGR Sociology Conference, Manchester, June 7, 2019.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2019).
"Twitter as a site for transnational political audiencing: An analysis of cross-border participation in the election of Donald Trump." Presented at the Digital⇌Culture Conference, Nottingham, May 10, 2019.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2019).
"Cosmopolitan nationalists: An analysis of foreign users in the American Twittersphere during the 2016 US election." Presented at the ICA Political Communication Division Graduate Student Pre-Conference, Washington, D.C., May 24, 2019.
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Robinson, Jessica Yarin
(2016).
The Media Welfare State: Statistical appendix (http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/personer/vit/trinesy/mws_appendix_final.pdf).
Universitetet i Oslo.
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June 27, 2018 10:15 AM
- Last modified
Oct. 19, 2023 3:34 PM