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Critical Studies of Contemporary Biosciences
Volume 42, 2023 - Issue 1
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Research Article

Siloed discourses: a year-long study of twitter engagement on the use of CRISPR in food and agriculture

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Article: e2248363 | Received 08 Nov 2022, Accepted 10 Aug 2023, Published online: 22 Aug 2023

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Table 1. Actor categories

Figure 1. The CRISPR agriculture Twitter network map depicting the most re-tweeted tweets between January–December 2021. The color of the nodes represent the different actor groups identified by the authors. The size of each node corresponds to its degree centrality

Figure 1. The CRISPR agriculture Twitter network map depicting the most re-tweeted tweets between January–December 2021. The color of the nodes represent the different actor groups identified by the authors. The size of each node corresponds to its degree centrality

Figure 2. Community clusters for the top 50 original, unique tweets. Actor groups illustrate that the “scientist” accounts (green nodes) are both the most present and the best connected (for example see NikoGeldner). Popular news (teel nodes) on the other hand, are not being retweeted by the top 50 accounts – at the moment it is primarily scientific information and breakthroughs that are being circulated to and from scientists and scientific publications (dark blue nodes)

Figure 2. Community clusters for the top 50 original, unique tweets. Actor groups illustrate that the “scientist” accounts (green nodes) are both the most present and the best connected (for example see NikoGeldner). Popular news (teel nodes) on the other hand, are not being retweeted by the top 50 accounts – at the moment it is primarily scientific information and breakthroughs that are being circulated to and from scientists and scientific publications (dark blue nodes)