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  • Kunnallisen jätevedenpuhdistuksen ammoniakkipäästöjen ympäristövaikutukset
    (2020-05-03) Lehikoinen, Anni
     Insinööritieteiden korkeakoulu | Bachelor's thesis
  • Social media network analysis in a water diplomacy case in the Blue Nile
    (2024-08-19) Lehikoinen, Anni
     Insinööritieteiden korkeakoulu | Master's thesis
    Water diplomacy measures are in a crucial role in both resolving as well as preventing transboundary water related conflicts which could emerge because of non-sustainable use of water for different purposes like agriculture, industry, households and hydropower. As a result, water resources can deplete in quality and quantity, leading to drought and water scarcity. This thesis studies the role of water diplomacy in a social media context around the major hydropower project, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), in the Blue Nile. Material for the study was collected from Twitter based on public tweets using relevant hashtags between years 2011-2022 which covered the construction and filling phases of the dam. Social Network Analysis methods were used for analysing the data with the aim to understand the types of networks formed in the discussion and how they have changed in time. The results show that the discussion has increased in volume as the project has progressed, especially after year 2019 when the project phase started to shift from construction to filling the reservoir. In 2021, the discussion was most active out of all the years and by 2022 the activity slowed down, possibly due to the negotiations between the riparian countries getting suspended in 2021. Social network analysis results don’t show a strong polarization of the crowd participating in the discussion around GERD, nor do they support the idea of Twitter users grouping in tight communities for a long time. Rather, the networks resembled a learning community around a professional topic.