Dresden 2020 – scientific programme

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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 6: Poster

SOE 6.17: Poster

Monday, March 16, 2020, 17:00–20:00, P2/4OG

African Swine Fever - potential topic of awareness in social movements — •Andrzej Jarynowski and Vitaly Belik — Institute for Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, FU Berlin

African Swine Fever (ASF) is a viral infection in domestic pigs and wild boars causing more than one billion EUR yearly losses in Eastern Europe. To illustrate the impact, only in Poland, after introduction in 2014, due to restrictions ca. 90% of farms stopped pig production or were banned. The intensive control measures against ASF in European Union significantly transforms biosecurity, trade, sanitary, environmental etc. regulations and ethics, thus causing protests of various groups of interest as (1) farmers (who are not ready to apply biosecurity measures), (2) animal right defenders (who do not agree with governmental policy of wild boars depopulation) and (3) hunters with public administration (who have to control wild boars population). We analyze ASF topic awareness in the Internet in Poland and Germany. In particular, we reviewed possibility of using Twitter and Facebook data on ecological, animal rights activism, farmers association as well hunters and veterinarians organisations. We showed by using retweeting and following networks from Polish twitter, that meaningfull clusters of agents can be detected. The possible appearance of political consultancy or foreign intelligence in social media, which could polarize society, were observed because Twitter accounts, already classified as potentially suspicious were also propagating anti-government content which fueled animal right movement.