#Boycotts represent digital advocacy attempts in which users publicly punish an organization as a lurata (i.e., jury), assesses the guilty intent, mens rea mind), from set of visible acts, actus reus wrongdoings). Yet, we know little about quasi-legal narratives advocated by users. To this aim, developed mixed method study #deleteuber boycott on Twitter. Our findings suggest that while advocate...

Quality criteria do not only relate to the products mere quality, but to the production and marketing process of the product as well. Customers often express their dissatisfaction with low ethical standards in this area by consumer boycotts. As there are complex relationships between financial aspects and compliance, a system dynamics model is used to unveil causal relationships and explain beh...

We consider a two-period durable goods monopoly model with demand uncertainty. When uncertainty is non-multiplicative, there can be equilibria in which, whenever the period 0 price exceeds a threshold, then with positive probability all consumers boycott in period 0. A consumer who in period 0 would purchase in the non-boycott equilibrium is willing to join a boycott because a boycott prevents ...

In the late 1990s and through 2001, consumer activists protested Nike’s alleged “sweatshops” around the globe. This was a new sort of protest that went beyond the picket lines and boycotts of the past – this protest extensively used email and listservs to spread messages and mobilize action at an unprecedented pace and for a very low cost (Peretti and Micheletti 2011). Nike responded to the con...

Elementary and middle schoolers in New York state sat for the second round of Common Core tests this week amid boycotts and protests from parents, teachers and principals. The Common Core is a set of academic standards in mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) meant to prepare students for college and career success. Its advocates argue that such standards are crucial for establishing equa...

Despite considerable theoretical work in social sciences, ready to use resources are very limited compared to digitally available mass media resources. Thus, this project creates a political protest database from online news resources in Brazil that will be used to explain Brazilian welfare state policy changes. In this paper we present the preliminary results of a system that automatically cra...

A fundamental element of democracy is the principle that people are free to express opinions and have equal opportunities be represented in government decision-making. People who feel they can influence political processes more likely participate civic life through voting, or by engaging with politicians parties. Active engagement politics builds stronger democratic values ensures system’s legi...