Success Factors of Online Petitions: Evidence from Change.org

Elnoshokaty, Ahmed; Deng, Shuyuan; Kwak, Dong-Heon

doi:10.1109/hicss.2016.249

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“…In principle, the implementation of a public policy will have an impact on society (Lindner & Riehm, 2011). A petition is a formal request to an authority that is usually co-signed by a group of supporters, and it has emerged to become a powerful tool for the public to make a positive impact on society (Noshokaty, Deng, & Kwak, 2016). Public concern about the Music Bill issue was spread through online petitions and aimed to achieve policy action to thwart the issue.…”

Section: Online Petition For Digital Advocacymentioning

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The Application of Social Movement as a Form of Digital Advocacy: Case of #TolakRUUPermusikan

Alifiarry

Kusumasari

2021

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Most of the research on social movement and digital advocacy through hashtags is concentrated on the identifications of social media usage. There is limited research concerning the comprehensive understanding and analysis on how it can develop and interact with social networks. This research aims to further identify the process of the successful social movement that has been mobilized by Indonesian’s musicians and public by using a hashtag as a form of advocacy in thwarting the Music Draft Bill and in understanding the role of the actors and public engagement behind this social movement. We have analyzed #TolakRUUPermusikan as a social movement that formed into digital advocacy by referring to the literature review that was conducted by the previous studies. This research will map out the actors and public engagement behind the movement. In each criterion, the result has been aligned with the conceptual framework in application of #TolakRUUPermusikan as a social movement, the use of online petition as a digital advocacy tool, and the network structure of #TolakRUUPermusikan to find the actors and understanding the engagements of the public. The implication of this study is to show the success of a social movement to assess policy making and policy failure. Sebagian besar penelitian tentang gerakan sosial dan advokasi digital melalui tagar terkonsentrasi pada identifikasi penggunaan media sosial. Penelitian kecil mempertimbangkan pemahaman dan analisis yang komprehensif tentang bagaimana hal itu dapat berkembang dan berinteraksi dengan jaringan sosial. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk lebih mengidentifikasi proses keberhasilan Gerakan sosial yang telah dimobilisasi oleh musisi dan masyarakat Indonesia, dengan menggunakan tagar sebagai bentuk advokasi dalam menggagalkan RUU Permusikan dan memahami peran para actor dan keterlibatan publik di balik gerakan sosial ini. Kami telah menganalisis #TolakRUUPermusikan sebagai gerakan sosial yang terbentuk menjadi advokasi digital dengan mengacu pada tinjauan literatur yang telah dilakukan oleh penelitian sebelumnya. Penelitian ini akan memetakan aktor dan keterlibatan publik di balik gerakan tersebut. Pada setiap kriteria, hasilnya telah diselaraskan dengan kerangka konseptual dalam penerapan #TolakRUUPermusikan sebagai gerakan sosial, penggunaan petisi online sebagai alat advokasi digital, serta struktur jaringan #TolakRUUPermusikan untuk menemukan para pelaku dan memahami keterlibatan para pelaku. masyarakat. Implikasi dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menunjukkan keberhasilan suatu gerakan sosial dalam menilai pembuatan kebijakan dan kegagalan kebijakan.

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Section: Online Petition For Digital Advocacymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Application of Social Movement as a Form of Digital Advocacy: Case of #TolakRUUPermusikan

Alifiarry

Kusumasari

2021

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“…We have n petitions as input training examples of the form {a i , y i }, where a i and y i denote the text and signature count of petition i, respectively. Note that we log-transform the signature count, consistent with previous work (Elnoshokaty et al, 2016;Proskurnia et al, 2017).…”

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“…Asher et al (2017) and Proskurnia et al (2017) examine the effect of sharing petitions on Twitter on its overall success, as a time series regression task. Other work has analyzed the importance of content on the success of the petition (Elnoshokaty et al, 2016). Proskurnia et al (2017) also consider the anonymity of authors and petitions featured on the front-page of the website as additional factors.…”

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“…Our objective is to predict the popularity of a petition at the end of its lifetime, solely based on the petition text. Elnoshokaty et al (2016) is the closest work to this paper, whereby they target Change.org petitions and perform correlation analysis of popularity with the petition's category, target goal set, 2 and the distribution of words in General Inquirer categories (Stone et al, 1962). In our case, we are interested in the task of automatically predicting the number of signatures.…”

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Content-based Popularity Prediction of Online Petitions Using a Deep Regression Model

Subramanian

Baldwin

Cohn

2018

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

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Online petitions are a cost-effective way for citizens to collectively engage with policy-makers in a democracy. Predicting the popularity of a petition -commonly measured by its signature count -based on its textual content has utility for policymakers as well as those posting the petition. In this work, we model this task using CNN regression with an auxiliary ordinal regression objective. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach using UK and US government petition datasets. 1 2 See

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“…Change.org is well known as one of the largest online e-petition platforms (Huang et al, 2015;Elnoshokaty et al, 2016) and one of the main platforms for cyber-activism in Spain (Marqués, 2015;Change.org, 2018). The website Change.org must serve the practical function (Jakobson, 1960) of promoting interaction between the addresser and the addressee of content concerning cyber-activism while maintaining the conversation among platform users and motivating citizen mobilisation (Minocher, 2018).…”

Section: Cyber-activism As a New Form Of Collective Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Activisme cultural: anàlisi de contingut de les peticions de cultura popular a Change.org España

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Frade²,

Delmar³

2020

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The digital platforms for citizen mobilisation host a multitude of protest petitions with different purposes and intentions. In this complex and pluralistic context, this study analyses the success of citizen-driven initiatives on Change.org Spain, as this platform appears to have become one of the most consequential participative websites in Spain, especially for petitions that are related to popular culture. To this end, this study used a quantitative content analysis method to examine a total of 304 petitions. The main results reveal some communication weaknesses of Change.org Spain as an important platform for cyber-activism. Specifically, troll petitions-joking messages that adulterate the seriousness of fan dynamics-are as impactful as fan or antifan initiatives; as a result, Change. org Spain has certain communicative deficiencies as a model cyber-activist channel. On the other hand, there are a significant number of non-diegetic petitions: the fandom profile is more concerned with issues outside popular culture than about modifying or changing the content. Finally, our findings show that, in general, the most successful popular culture initiatives are better written and include a longer title and text than closed initiatives, regardless of whether they were part of fan or antifan movements. In short, this study concludes that the length and linguistic correctness are relevant and meaningful elements that determine the success or failure of popular culture petitions on Change. org Spain, while all other variables (addresser, audiovisual elements, popular culture community type and type of actions) were not significant in determining the success or failure of the e-petition. In general, most of the petitions are not successful, typically use images,

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Success Factors of Online Petitions: Evidence from Change.org

Cited by 19 publications

References 30 publications

The Application of Social Movement as a Form of Digital Advocacy: Case of #TolakRUUPermusikan

The Application of Social Movement as a Form of Digital Advocacy: Case of #TolakRUUPermusikan

Content-based Popularity Prediction of Online Petitions Using a Deep Regression Model

Activisme cultural: anàlisi de contingut de les peticions de cultura popular a Change.org España

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