Covid19 and protest repertoires in the United States: an initial description of limited change

Pressman, Jeremy; Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin

doi:10.1080/14742837.2020.1860743

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“…Protests, as the main exposure, was obtained from Count Love (downloaded on 15 October 2020) [15], an online database that uses local newspaper and television outlets to document when and where protest occurred in the U.S, the number of attendees, and common protested issues [30]. Two protest variables were operationalized: a binary variable of any protest (no protest vs. any protest) and a categorical variable representing the number of protests on a given day in a county (no protests vs. 1 or >1 protest).…”

Section: Outcome and Exposure Measurementsmentioning

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Public Protests and the Risk of Novel Coronavirus Disease Hospitalizations: A County-Level Analysis from California

Bui

Jilek

et al. 2021

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The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between public protests and county-level, novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) hospitalization rates across California. Publicly available data were included in the analysis from 55 of 58 California state counties (29 March–14 October 2020). Mixed-effects negative binomial regression models were used to examine the relationship between daily county-level COVID-19 hospitalizations and two main exposure variables: any vs. no protests and 1 or >1 protest vs. no protests on a given county-day. COVID-19 hospitalizations were used as a proxy for viral transmission since such rates are less sensitive to temporal changes in testing access/availability. Models included covariates for daily county mobility, county-level characteristics, and time trends. Models also included a county-population offset and a two-week lag for the association between exposure and outcome. No significant associations were observed between protest exposures and COVID-19 hospitalization rates among the 55 counties. We did not find evidence to suggest that public protests were associated with COVID-19 hospitalization within California counties. These findings support the notion that protesting during a pandemic may be safe, ostensibly, so long as evidence-based precautionary measures are taken.

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Section: Outcome and Exposure Measurementsmentioning

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Public Protests and the Risk of Novel Coronavirus Disease Hospitalizations: A County-Level Analysis from California

Bui

Jilek

et al. 2021

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“…We use data provided by Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) [24]. This dataset has been used by many prior social movement studies [25,[42][43][44]. The researchers at CCC compile social and political crowd events in the U.S. including protests, rallies, strikes, etc.…”

Section: Movements Offline Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Keyword expansion techniques for mining social movement data on social media

Bozarth

Budak

2022

EPJ Data Sci.

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Political and social scientists have been relying extensively on keywords such as hashtags to mine social movement data from social media sites, particularly Twitter. Yet, prior work demonstrates that unrepresentative keyword sets can lead to flawed research conclusions. Numerous keyword expansion methods have been proposed to increase the comprehensiveness of keywords, but systematic evaluations of these methods have been lacking. Our paper fills this gap. We evaluate five diverse keyword expansion techniques (or pipelines) on five representative social movements across two distinct activity levels. Our results guide researchers who aim to use social media keyword searches to mine data. For instance, we show that word embedding-based methods significantly outperform other even more complex and newer approaches when movements are in normal activity periods. These methods are also less computationally intensive. More importantly, we also observe that no single pipeline can identify little more than half of all movement-related tweets when these movements are at their peak mobilization period offline. However, coverage can increase significantly when more than one pipeline is used. This is true even when the pipelines are selected at random.

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“…It draws from the assumption that closer links with other local movements might contribute to an increase in transversality, as activists realize-and act upon-the connections that exist between different issues. On top of this, we will take into account the role of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, which likely had-and is still having-a significant impact on activists and social movement organizations worldwide (Pressman and Choi-Fitzpatrick 2020;Thompson 2020).…”

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“Glocal” and Transversal Engagement in Youth Social Movements: A Twitter-Based Case Study of Fridays For Future-Barcelona

Terren

Soler‐i‐Martí

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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In the last decade, there has been a significant rise in the number of global social movements, generating claims of a new networked era of global social movements, in which young people often play a central role. Young generations and social movements tend to identify with a diverse set of social and political issues on both a global and local scale, while often displaying a progressive and transversal outlook. Among these youth social movements, we find Fridays For Future, a youth climate organization noted for its unique scope and tactics as well as for illustrating the prominence of environmental issues in youth activism. Since 2018, the movement has progressively grown into a network composed of many local and national groups across the world. Beyond analysis of the global character of the movement and the profile and motivations of its activists, it seems opportune to look at how—at the organizational level—these local groups evolve and position themselves. Based on a social network and a content analysis of Fridays For Future-Barcelona’s Twitter account since its creation, this article explores the organization’s “glocal” and transversal dynamics, the relationship that might exist between these two, and the potential influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on these processes. The results show that, stemming from a global preoccupation for climate change, this Youth Climate Movement organization has been increasingly oriented towards local-level networking, anchoring its activism in local struggles and realities. They also show a positively-associated process—reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic—of increasing transversality, reflecting aspirations for global justice and the idea of an interdependency between climate change and other social, political and economic issues.

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Covid19 and protest repertoires in the United States: an initial description of limited change

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

Public Protests and the Risk of Novel Coronavirus Disease Hospitalizations: A County-Level Analysis from California

Public Protests and the Risk of Novel Coronavirus Disease Hospitalizations: A County-Level Analysis from California

Keyword expansion techniques for mining social movement data on social media

“Glocal” and Transversal Engagement in Youth Social Movements: A Twitter-Based Case Study of Fridays For Future-Barcelona

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