Social Networks and Protest Participation
Evidence from 130 Million Twitter Users
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer M Larson (0000-0001-7681-2935, Vanderbilt University), Jonathan Nagler (0000-0001-6918-9428, New York University), Jonathan Ronen (0000-0003-3980-6469, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology), Joshua A Tucker (0000-0003-1321-8650, New York University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 690-705 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12436 |
| OpenAlex | W3121228507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 27 |
Pinning down the role of social ties in the decision to protest has been notoriously elusive, largely due to data limitations. Social media and their global use by protesters offer an unprecedented opportunity to observe real‐time social ties and online behavior, though often without an attendant measure of real‐world behavior. We collect data on Twitter activity during the 2015 Charlie Hebdo protest in Paris, which, unusually, record real‐world protest attendance and network structure measured beyond egocentric networks. We devise a test of social theories of protest that hold that participation depends on exposure to others' intentions and network position determines exposure. Our findings are strongly consistent with these theories, showing that protesters are significantly more connected to one another via direct, indirect, triadic, and reciprocated ties than comparable nonprotesters. These results offer the first large‐scale empirical support for the claim that social network structure has consequences for protest participation
Attendance · Business · Interpersonal ties · Network structure · Political science · Position (finance · Social media · Social network (sociolinguistics · Sociology · Strong ties · Computer Science · Law · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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Viral Voting
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Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
Rationalizing protests – From individuals to networks
Longitudinal change in language behaviour during protests
Word embeddings and deep learning for location prediction
Do social media undermine social cohesion? A critical review
Collective identity in collective action
The democratizing qualities of the Palestinian village Bil’in’s civil resistance campaign
Distract and Divert
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Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants
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How Threats of Exclusion Mobilize Palestinian Political Participation
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The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network
The Structure and Dynamics of Movement Participation
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Chains of Cooperation
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Spontaneous Collective Action
Testing Social Science Network Theories with Online Network Data
Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties
Specifying the Relationship Between Social Ties and Activism
Social Networks and Collective Action
Threshold Models of Collective Behavior
The Strength of Weak Ties
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |