Twitter Corpus of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement And Counter Protests: 2013 to 2021

Giorgi, Salvatore; Guntuku, Sharath Chandra; Himelein-Wachowiak, McKenzie; Kwarteng, Amy; Sy, Hwang,; Rahman, Muhammad Sabbir; Curtis, Brenda

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“…Analyses were conducted on Twitter data obtained from an online research repository for BLM tweets ( 36 ). Primary analyses were conducted on Twitter data identified as nonretweets ( N = 100,321) posted between (2020 April 1 to 2020 July 20; see Supplementary material ).…”

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Racism hurts, can antiracism heal?: Positive mental health correlates of antiracist engagement

Brannon

2023

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Racism can hurt by negatively impacting mental health. For instance, large-scale events tied to racism like the May 2020 police-involved murder of George Floyd have been linked to poor mental health indicators (e.g., depression, anxiety). Notably, racism can spark anti-racist engagement— support for addressing systemic racism. For example, Floyd’s murder sparked unprecedented anti-racist engagement including heightened Black Lives Matter (BLM) support and protest participation. The present research explored the potential that anti-racist engagement can heal: be positively associated with well-being. First, Study 1 found that state-level BLM engagement (i.e., protest numbers, anti-racism information-seeking on Google/YouTube) during an 8-week period following Floyd’s death was associated with positive mental health indicators (i.e., lower depression and anxiety, higher self-rated health). It found these effects among racial/ethnic minorities (e.g., Black/African Americans, Hispanics, N=161,359) and Whites (N=516,002). Then, Study 2 examined social media data (i.e., tweets) and emotional well-being. It used a measure of happiness indexed across 144,649,285,571 tweets from 2019 through 2021. It found a positive correlation between the volume of tweets with anti-racist engagement content (e.g., referenced efforts to address systemic racism) and the happiness measure. Finally, Study 3 examined anti-racism protest data/information-seeking and a sample of BLM tweets (N=100,321) posted between April and July 2020. Conceptually replicating Studies 1-2, Study 3 found that anti-racist engagement was associated with greater positive emotion/sentiment (e.g., happiness) relative to negative emotion/sentiment (e.g., anxiety). Relevant to theory and policy, the observed results suggest that anti-racist engagement can be associated with benefits for well-being across racial/ethnic groups.

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Racism hurts, can antiracism heal?: Positive mental health correlates of antiracist engagement

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2023

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“…The main method of tweet collection for the present corpora is retrospectively, using the python module twint (https://github.com/twintproject/twint). The tweets thus collected are supplemented from a comparable corpus collected by Giorgi et al 2020; There are some important differences between the present corpus and that collected by Giorgi et al, which are outlined below. The first part of this section describes the main tweet collection process and criteria, following which I dicuss the supplementation from the Giorgi et al corpus.…”

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BLMtwitter: The Black Lives Matter (BLM) Twitter Corpus

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2022

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In May 2020, the murder of George Floyd led to protests throughout the United States and around the world. Along with these protests, social media platforms saw a dramatic increase in the volume of discussion regarding Black Lives Matter (BLM). Two years on, online discussion of BLM continues to be lively, not just in the United States but also internationally. This paper introduces one of the most extensive collections of Black Lives Matter tweets available, covering from 2010 through May 2022 and including nearly 50 million tweets overall. Parallel corpora for All Lives Matter and Blue Lives matter are similarly collected. I describe the corpus construction process, including selection criteria for tweets using the BLM acronym. The paper provides a summary description of key dimensions of the three corpora, including patterns in tweet counts over time as well as the number of distinct users and the volume of tweets in languages other than English. The corpus is publicly available and updated regularly.

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Twitter Corpus of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement And Counter Protests: 2013 to 2021

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Racism hurts, can antiracism heal?: Positive mental health correlates of antiracist engagement

Racism hurts, can antiracism heal?: Positive mental health correlates of antiracist engagement

BLMtwitter: The Black Lives Matter (BLM) Twitter Corpus

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