Protesting Corruption on Twitter: Is It a Bot or Is It a Person?

Salge, Carolina; Karahanna, Elena

doi:10.5465/amd.2015.0121

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“…As is common in big data Twitter analyses, we faced the persistent technical issue of a great deal of blank or non‐classifiable bio‐info (e.g. Bullingham and Vasconcelos ; Salge and Karahanna ). In addition, although we quantitatively examined unions’ ability to achieve opinion leadership in a labour campaign and qualitatively examined how and why unions emerge as opinion leaders, empirical validation of our findings will require better coupling of the two aspects.…”

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Tweeting and Retweeting for Fight for $15: Unions as Dinosaur Opinion Leaders?

Frangi

Zhang

Hebdon

2019

Brit J Industrial Rel

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Advocacy campaigns are central to unions' efforts to impact labour rights beyond unionized workplaces. Social media and on-the-ground campaign dynamics are intimately related. Thus, if unions can become leaders on social media, they could have more impact on campaign framing and mobilizing. Drawing on primary data and applying a sequential mixed method, we analyse unions' ability to emerge as opinion leaders in Twitter dialogues on the Fight for $15 (FF$15) campaign. We track FF$15-related activities of Twitter profiles over seven months and compare union actions to those of others along three dimensions: level of activity, prevalence of tweeting versus retweeting and endorsement within FF$15 community and in the Twitter universe. Regression results show unions prefer advancing their own ideas over supporting those of others, and their messages are more endorsed than others' messages in the Twitter universe. Indepth interviews and a focus group reveal that while their actions are slow and conservative, unions can count on internal support and institutional reputation to gain leadership. The article concludes by noting the implications of the findings for unions' strategies to become opinion leaders on social media.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Tweeting and Retweeting for Fight for $15: Unions as Dinosaur Opinion Leaders?

Frangi

Zhang

Hebdon

2019

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…In particular, social bots, computer algorithms that automatically generate content and interact with people on social media, have increasingly become an important part of conversations on social media, whether positive or negative [47]. For example, [48] found that bots played a key role in Brazil's anti-corruption protest on Twitter. They found that bots influenced the protest by amplifying messages as they replicated particular messages on Twitter.…”

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Collective Action in Digital Age: A Multilevel Approach

Seo

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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This theory paper proposes a multilevel model for analyzing collective actions for social change in the networked information age. The model includes four levels of agency (individual, group, organizational, and bot) and three levels of affordance (application, network infrastructure, and socio-political system) to help analyze social change dynamics which have become more decentralized. Mechanisms and outcomes of interactions between factors in the model should be considered to offer a more complete picture of social change facilitated by digital communication technologies. Empirical studies based on this model will help illuminate the evolution of communication structures as well as the affordances that evolution provides for social change. Moreover, speedy disintermediation in networked spaces and interactions between the levels in this process provides an opportunity for better understanding information generation and mediation.

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“…Much research already speaks to the role of digital technologies in fundamentally changing the structure, expressions, and dissemination of contemporary collective action at the movement level [7,8,17,18,19,20]. Such research has helped to advance theoretical and empirical understanding on how digital platforms coordinate actions of heterogeneous and autonomous groups of activists, and in coproducing and disseminating political and social dissent.…”

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Institutional Logics and Digital Collective Action at Amnesty International – the Decoder Initiative

Selander¹,

Järvenpää²

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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As social movement organizations (SMOs) enter the platform economy to transform their processes and scale their impact, they have to reckon their traditional logic with the emerging logic of the platform organization. In this paper we examine the Decoder initiative at Amnesty International. The Decoder initiative introduced the global SMO into the uncharted territory of online microtasking of political activism. The platform allowed rapid scaling of repetitive unstructured data tasks to generate large quantities of standardized data, leveraging the work of thousands previously unaffiliated digital supporters around the world. While partially contrasting, we trace and examine the coexistence of the SMO and digital platform logics. We conclude with implications for theory and practice.

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Protesting Corruption on Twitter: Is It a Bot or Is It a Person?

Cited by 35 publications

References 40 publications

Tweeting and Retweeting for Fight for $15: Unions as Dinosaur Opinion Leaders?

Tweeting and Retweeting for Fight for $15: Unions as Dinosaur Opinion Leaders?

Collective Action in Digital Age: A Multilevel Approach

Institutional Logics and Digital Collective Action at Amnesty International – the Decoder Initiative

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