Calls to Action on Social Media: Potential for Censorship and Social Impact

Anna Rogers, Olga Kovaleva, Anna Rumshisky

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    Abstract

    Calls to action on social media are known to be effective means of mobilization in social movements, and a frequent target of censorship. We investigate the possibility of their automatic detection and their potential for predicting real-world protest events, on historical data of Bolotnaya protests in Russia (2011-2013). We find that political calls to action can be annotated and detected with relatively high accuracy, and that in our sample their volume has a moderate positive correlation with rally attendance.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TitelEMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Internet Freedom
    Publikationsdato2019
    StatusUdgivet - 2019

    Emneord

    • Social media mobilization
    • Censorship detection
    • Political calls to action
    • Protest prediction
    • Bolotnaya protests analysis

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