Sentiment on Social Media and Its Role In the Case-study Lynetteholmen

Social media has become the dominating communication system in populations worldwide. Along with this development follows the fact that citizens now have entirely new means of dissemination and exposure at their disposal, which can be leveraged to influence the balance in social and political decision-making processes.
The urban planning in Denmark has for many years, been the result of strategic decision-making between politician, planners and municipalities. Similarly for many years new process in urban development has been able to play out, alongside groups of protesting citizens, exercising their democratic right, without it necessarily influencing the developments. However with the mass-adoption of social media into the population, bottom-up movements and grassroot movements, can convey their message in entirely new ways, which raises questions about its implications on the public debate surrounding urban-development and governance, and ultimately the built environment in which the lives of citizens unfold.

This article seeks to shed light on the new conditions in which public opinion is formed, furthermore it seeks to make visible places where the balance in political and social decision-making processes can be challenged due to new conditions imposed by developments in information and communication technology.