Online Engagement Between Opposing Political Protest Groups via Social Media is Linked to Physical Violence of Offline Encounters

Witnessing Political Protest on Civic Engagement∗

How does physically witnessing a protest in a democratic society affect citizens in authoritarian societies? Existing data are unable to answer the question by failures to capture witnesses, to construct meaningful comparison groups and to obtain information on pre-protest political behaviors. Using a quasi-experiment design, we report a first causal estimation on impact of 13 protests in Hong ...

Policing Engagement via Social Media

Social Media is commonly used by policing organisations to spread the word on crime, weather, missing person, etc. In this work we aim to understand what attracts citizens to engage with social media policing content. To study these engagement dynamics we propose a combination of machine learning and semantic analysis techniques. Our initial research, performed over 3,200 posts from @dorsetpoli...

Predicting Online Protest Participation of Social Media Users

Social media has emerged to be a popular platform for people to express their viewpoints on political protests like the Arab Spring. Millions of people use social media to communicate and mobilize their viewpoints on protests. Hence, it is a valuable tool for organizing social movements. However, the mechanisms by which protest affects the population is not known, making it difficult to estimat...

Do personality traits predict civic engagement and political participation? Understanding offline and online engagement and participation

Social interaction in online support groups: Preference for online social interaction over offline social interaction

Keywords: Online support group Supportive communication E-health Computer-mediated communication Preference for online social interaction Internet a b s t r a c t The purpose of the current study was to identify potential factors leading to preference for social interaction in online support groups (OSGs) over offline inter action. By identifying such factors, the current study advances underst...