Protest Event Analysis: Developing a Semiautomated NLP Approach

Protest event analysis is a key method to study social movements, allowing systematically analyze protest events over time and space. However, the manual coding of time-consuming resource intensive. Recently, advances in automated approaches offer opportunities code multiple sources create large data sets that span many countries years. too often procedures used are not discussed details and, therefore, researchers have limited capacity assess validity reliability data. In addition, highlighted biases associated with reported news. this study, we ask how scientists can build on electronic news databases computational tools reliable PEA cover number long period time. We provide detailed description our semiautomated approach an extensive discussion potential identified international sources.