It Is Not Only About Grievances: Emotional Dynamics in Social Media During the Brazilian Protests

Costa, Jean; Rotabi, Rahmtin; Murnane, Elizabeth L.; Choudhury, Tanzeem

doi:10.1609/icwsm.v9i1.14667

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“…On social media, narratives are often fragmented, consisting of chained posts that link events across multiple sources. Protest studies have focused on shared grievances, revealing people's determination and hardships (Costa et al 2015). Social media protests bring social justice and aid marginalized groups (Wu et al 2023).…”

Section: Protest Narrativesmentioning

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Understanding Coordinated Communities through the Lens of Protest-Centric Narratives: A Case Study on #CAA Protest

Neha,

Agrawal,

Chhatani

et al. 2024

ICWSM

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Social media platforms, particularly Twitter, have emerged as vital media for organizing online protests worldwide. During protests, users on social media share different narratives, often coordinated to share collective opinions and obtain widespread reach. In this paper, we focus on the communities formed during a protest and the collective narratives they share, using the protest on the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (#CAA) by the Indian Government as a case study. Since #CAA protest led to divergent discourse in the country, we first classify the users into opposing stances, i.e., protesters (who opposed the Act) and counter-protesters (who supported it) in an unsupervised manner. Next, we identify the coordinated communities in the opposing stances and examine the collective narratives shared by coordinated communities of opposing stances. We use content-based metrics to identify user coordination, including hashtags, mentions, and retweets. Our results suggest mention as the strongest metric for coordination across the opposing stances. Next, we decipher the collective narratives in the opposing stances using an unsupervised narrative detection framework and found call-to-action, on-ground activity, grievances sharing, questioning, and skepticism narratives in the protest tweets. We analyze the strength of the different coordinated communities using network measures, and perform inauthentic activity analysis on the most coordinated communities on both sides. Our findings also suggest that coordinated communities, which were highly inauthentic, showed the highest clustering coefficient towards a greater extent of coordination.

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Section: Protest Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Coordinated Communities through the Lens of Protest-Centric Narratives: A Case Study on #CAA Protest

Neha,

Agrawal,

Chhatani

et al. 2024

ICWSM

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“…The study of social media-mediated protests has been done regarding protest prediction [1], protest participation [5], and study of protest growth [17]. Protest participation study focuses on shared grievances and sheds light on the people's will and hardships [18]. Social media protests often bring social justice and help marginalized social groups [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other networkbased approaches include collective action to conduct recent anti-government protests, where hashtag activism has helped reach mass mobilizaiton [3,8]. The analysis of textual features for understanding the sentiment of protest tweets shows the prevalence of negative sentiment [18] and specific psycholinguistic lexicons over the others [2]. The literature has extensively studied the prediction of protest through social media posts.…”

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An Unsupervised Narrative Detection Framework to Demystify Online Protest Composition

Neha

Agrawal

Chhatani

et al. 2023

Preprint

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In recent years, social media, such as Twitter, has become a central point for organizing and developing online protests worldwide. Although protest and mass mobilization are scarce, they may lead to dramatic developments when they occur. Different narratives shared during a protest serve as strategic tools for building and advancing collective opinions. Hence, it becomes crucial to decipher various narratives shared during an online protest. In this work, we aim to investigate the shared narratives and examine the evolution and communication around the narratives during the protest. To this end, we propose an unsupervised clustering-based framework to understand the various narratives in an online protest. We contribute novel insights about narratives shared during an online protest by analyzing 4 protests under study. Next, we investigate the evolution of identified converging narratives across the protests. We further identify the most influential participants in a protest and study their contribution to spreading various narratives. Our results suggest that clusters with call-to-action tweets and on-ground activity reporting tweets are common narratives across all protests. The analysis of the evolution of narrative suggests that the call-to-action narrative is the most consistent during the protest. The community detection over the retweet network across protests suggests narrative-centric community formation. Our research on narrative analysis during a protest can help provide crucial intelligence and situational awareness to make informed decisions.

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Understanding Online Political Networks: The Case of the Far-Right and Far-Left in Greece

Agathangelou

Katakis

Rori

et al. 2017

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract.4 This paper examines the connectivity among political networks on Twitter. We explore dynamics inside and between the far right and the far left, as well as the relation between the structure of the network and the sentiment. The 2015 Greek political context o↵ers a unique opportunity to investigate political communication in times of political intensity and crisis. We explore interactions inside and between political networks on Twitter in the run up to the elections of three di↵erent ballots: the parliamentary election of 25 January, the bailout referendum of 5 July, the snap election of 20 September; we, then, compare political action during campaigns with that during routinized politics.

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It Is Not Only About Grievances: Emotional Dynamics in Social Media During the Brazilian Protests

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Understanding Coordinated Communities through the Lens of Protest-Centric Narratives: A Case Study on #CAA Protest

Understanding Coordinated Communities through the Lens of Protest-Centric Narratives: A Case Study on #CAA Protest

An Unsupervised Narrative Detection Framework to Demystify Online Protest Composition

Understanding Online Political Networks: The Case of the Far-Right and Far-Left in Greece

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