Grubert Emily
Stanford University, USA.
Public Underst Sci. 2017 Jan;26(1):121-123. doi: 10.1177/0963662515626310. Epub 2016 Aug 2.
Hopke and Simis ( Public Understanding of Science, online 4 October 2015) find that #fracking, the most popular of five shale-related hashtags analyzed from a 2013 period, is associated with pro-shale attitudes only 13% of the time and note that the dominant voice of the activist community, coupled with a lack of engagement from industry, is unexpected. This comment offers additional perspective on the sentiment- and actor-skewed result by noting that the term "fracking" is highly political, specifically because the spelling "frack" versus "frac" is associated with activism. Furthermore, in public speech, the industry tends to deemphasize the hydraulic fracturing process in favor of the product, consistent with the findings that #natgas is a relatively pro-industry hashtag.
霍普克和西米斯（《公众对科学的理解》，2015年10月4日在线发布）发现，在对2013年期间分析的五个与页岩相关的热门话题标签中，最热门的“水力压裂法”（fracking），仅有13%的时间与支持页岩气开采的态度相关联，他们指出，激进主义团体的主导声音，再加上行业缺乏参与度，这是出人意料的。该评论通过指出“水力压裂法”（fracking）这个词具有高度政治性，特别是因为“frack”与“frac”的拼写与激进主义相关联，从而对这种情感和行为主体偏差的结果提供了更多视角。此外，在公开演讲中，该行业倾向于淡化水力压裂过程，而更强调产品，这与“天然气”（#natgas）是一个相对支持行业的热门话题标签这一发现一致。
