Social Media and the Broadening of Social Movements: Evidence from Black Lives Matter

Casanueva, Annalí; Avetian, Vladimir; Sardoschau, Sulin; Saxena, Kavya

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“…show that VKontakte (VK), the most popular social media application in Russia, facilitated protests during a protest wave in 2011 triggered by electoral fraud benefiting the incumbent party, United Russia. Casanueva et al (2021) show that Twitter penetration played an important role in mobilizing new protesters and broadening coalitions for the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. However, all of these papers study a single protest movement and thus cannot explore differential effects depending on the characteristics of movements.…”

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From Tweets to the Streets: Twitter and Extremist Protests in the United States

Gylfason

2023

SSRN Journal

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From Tweets to the Streets: Twitter and Extremist Protests in the United States

Gylfason

2023

SSRN Journal

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Political backlash and consumer boycotts: Evidence from the NFB relocation and movie demand in Canada

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Xing

2024

Canadian J of Economics

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In this paper, we investigate the impact of the announcement in 1952 of a change in Canadian cultural policy, namely the reorganization of the National Film Board (NFB) and the move of its headquarters from Ottawa to Montréal, on movie demand. Using weekly box office revenue data for a subsample of movie theatres in Toronto and Montréal from 1945 to 1955, we estimate the impact of this policy change with a triple difference estimator and find that the NFB headquarters move in Canada was followed by a decrease in movie attendance for movies produced in anglophone countries and an increase in movie attendance for French movies in Montréal. We complement our analysis with Odesi public poll Canadian data from 1949 to 1959 and find that poll respondents from Quebec held a more negative opinion about the decisions of the Canadian government and the tide of Americanization, relative to respondents elsewhere, and that their opinion deteriorated further after the relocation announcement and the relocation itself took place. This finding is consistent with our hypothesis that the relocation of NFB headquarters caused political backlash and triggered a boycott against anglophone, especially American, movies in Quebec.

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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the Internet and social media: Empirical challenges and approaches

Sabatini

2024

Journal of Economic Surveys

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This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main approaches for establishing causal effects, each with strengths and limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific content. The second approach takes the form of field or laboratory experiments. In this paper, we focus on the first approach, delving into the methodological threats, empirical design, and main findings of the most prominent studies that exploit natural or quasi‐experiments for identifying the causal impact of high‐speed Internet or specific social media. This undertaking allows us to highlight the key empirical challenges in the field of Internet and social media economics while summarizing the causal relationships that the literature has uncovered so far.

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Social Media and the Broadening of Social Movements: Evidence from Black Lives Matter

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

From Tweets to the Streets: Twitter and Extremist Protests in the United States

From Tweets to the Streets: Twitter and Extremist Protests in the United States

Political backlash and consumer boycotts: Evidence from the NFB relocation and movie demand in Canada

The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the Internet and social media: Empirical challenges and approaches

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