‘Black Lives Matter:’ sport, race and ethnicity in challenging times

Evans, Adam; Agergaard, Sine; Campbell, Paul Ian; Hylton, Kevin; Lenneis, Verena

doi:10.1080/16138171.2020.1833499

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“…We notice that users exposed to the messages about racists have more diverse attitudes towards prevention measures. This is consistent with previous studies [ 36 ]. For example, some users argue that the protest breaks the social distancing policy and exacerbates the virus transmission, while some others hold the view that the impact of COVID-19 is overstated and the lockdown policy worsens racial discrimination.…”

Section: Spillover Effects In Covid-19 Preventive Measure Information...supporting

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Exploring Spillover Effects for COVID-19 Cascade Prediction

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An information outbreak occurs on social media along with the COVID-19 pandemic and leads to an infodemic. Predicting the popularity of online content, known as cascade prediction, allows for not only catching in advance information that deserves attention, but also identifying false information that will widely spread and require quick response to mitigate its negative impact. Among the various information diffusion patterns leveraged in previous works, the spillover effect of the information exposed to users on their decisions to participate in diffusing certain information has not been studied. In this paper, we focus on the diffusion of information related to COVID-19 preventive measures due to its special role in consolidating public efforts to slow down the spread of the virus. Through our collected Twitter dataset, we validate the existence of the spillover effects. Building on this finding, we propose extensions to three cascade prediction methods based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Experiments conducted on our dataset demonstrated that the use of the identified spillover effects significantly improves the state-of-the-art GNN methods in predicting the popularity of not only preventive measure messages, but also other COVID-19 messages.

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Section: Spillover Effects In Covid-19 Preventive Measure Information...supporting

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Exploring Spillover Effects for COVID-19 Cascade Prediction

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Zhong

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“…Challenges remain, however, including how to conduct research during the COVID-19 pandemic (Evans, Blackwell, et al, 2020), continued metricisation of research which can favour the natural sciences (Thiel, 2018) and the return of populist politics, the 'post-truth' era, and the frequent injustices that this can bring (e.g. Evans, Agergaard, et al, 2020;Evans & Davies, 2017;Malcolm, 2021). Such events have led to increasing criticism, and sometimes overt hostility, towards some of the disciplines at the forefront of qualitative research (e.g.…”

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Qualitative research in sports studies: challenges, possibilities and the current state of play

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European Journal for Sport and Society

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“…This is particularly in reference to the effects of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement that manifest symbolically in the wake of the killing of African American, George Floyd in the USA in March 2020. Much has changed in relation to this specific protest movement since the time of writing our initial Editorial and reflections (Evans et al, 2020;Hylton, 2020). At the time, the Black Lives Matter movement was in full flow across much of the West, both within the sport and in wider society.…”

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“…France) and stopped the practice (Euronews, 2021). Such differences highlight the increasingly fragmented nature of both the debate and symbolism related to how racial inequality is universally recognised (Evans et al, 2020). What's more, many right-wing activists (including many close to former US president Donald Trump) have attempted to discredit such protest against racial inequality by linking the actions of taking the knee with 'Marxism' and the Black Lives Matter organisation (Kertscher, 2020;White, 2021).…”

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