Oil Spill Response Policies to Bridge the Perception Gap between the Government and the Public: A Social Big Data Analysis
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This article presents an original analysis of the gap between public perception and government communication on the topic of oil spills. Social big data is analysed to understand people and government concerns, identify the gap between concerns and response. The article propose some strategies to close that gap.
This is a novel and interesting approach in my opinion. The article is well organised and written. The study is well motivated and described. The results are clear and support the discussion and conclusions.
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Reviewer 2 Report
This is an important study and should be published. I find very little to comment on. It is an important topic and the results are helpful to policy. My only comment is regarding the negative predicate "vibrate" (line # 236 and table 1) -- it's not obvious why this is a negative predicate. is it about people's cell phones vibrating? This should be explained. Otherwise, this looks good, is clearly written with good figures and tables. I recommend publishing with just a check of the language plus addressing my comment about the term "vibrate."
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