Why and how has China covered the Black Lives Matter (BLM), a movement with emerging themes closely related to its domestic issues? To what extent does Chinese media build unified discourse on sensitive that underpin BLM? These are important questions given China's complicated history ethnicity, race, protests. This article argues uses BLM as multi-faceted propaganda tool foster cohesion at ide...

Western Europe has recently experienced increasing protest mobilisation by right-wing populist movements. Although these movements are receiving scholarly attention, systematic data on activities is limited. In this research note, original used to describe the activity of Germany’s Pegida movement across space and time explore city-level determinants mobilisation. The dataset records 373 events...

In this paper we examine two protests characterized by substantial social media presence and distributed participation frameworks via two core questions: what roles did organizations and individuals play, and how did participants' social interactions change over the course of the protests? To answer these questions, we analyzed a large Twitter activity dataset for the #YoSoy132 student uprising...

The Netherlands had parliamentary elections on 22 November 2006. We built a system which helps voters to make an informed choice among the 16 participating parties. One of the most important pieces of information in the Dutch election and subsequent coalition government formation is the party manifesto. This is a text document with an average length of 45 pages. Our system provides the voter wi...

As global sea levels and natural resource demands rise, people around the world are increasingly protesting environmental threats to their lives and livelihoods. What are the conditions under which these peaceful environmental protests are violently repressed? This paper uses the random forest algorithm to conduct an event analysis of grassroots environmental protests around the world. Utilizin...

Since the shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the protest hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has amplified critiques of extrajudicial killings of Black Americans. In response to #BlackLivesMatter, other Twitter users have adopted #AllLivesMatter, a counter-protest hashtag whose content argues that equal attention should be given to all li...

The objective of this work is to better analyse and understand social self-organization in the context of social media and political activism. More specifically, we centre our analysis in the presence of fractal scaling in the form of 1/f noise in different Twitter communication networks related to the Spanish 15M movement. We show how quantitative indexes of brown, white and pink noise correla...

Do protests increase political engagement among the general public? It is often necessary for social movements to induce widespread political engagement in order to gain leverage over elected officials, but this consequence of protest activity has never been tested or verified. Indeed, empirical research on the public effects of protests has largely been handicapped by methodological limitation...