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Larissa Leite - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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flash mobs arab spring and Protest Movements
Expert Systems With Applications, 2016Co-Authors: Natalia Criado, Awais Rashid, Larissa LeiteAbstract:We present a model to analyse online group identities on textual conversations.Our model applies data mining, NLP and sylometric techniques.Our model detects the salience of group identities with 95% accuracy.Our model is able to distinguish group identities from others with 84% accuracy.We identify features that may enable mal-actors to manipulate online groups. The Internet has provided people with new ways of expressing not only their individuality but also their collectivity i.e., their group affiliations. These group identities are the shared sense of belonging to a group. Online contact with others who share the same group identity can lead to cooperation and, even, coordination of social action initiatives both online and offline. Such social actions may be for the purposes of positive change, e.g., the Arab Spring in 2010, or disruptive, e.g., the England Riots in 2011. Stylometry and authorship attribution research has shown that it is possible to distinguish individuals based on their online language. In contrast, this work proposes and evaluates a model to analyse group identities online based on textual conversations amongst groups. We argue that textual features make it possible to automatically distinguish between different group identities and detect whether group identities are salient (i.e., most prominent) in the context of a particular conversation. We show that the salience of group identities can be detected with 95% accuracy and group identities can be distinguished from others with 84% accuracy. We also identify the most relevant features that may enable mal-actors to manipulate the actions of online groups. This has major implications for tools and techniques to drive positive social actions online or safeguard society from disruptive initiatives. At the same time, it poses privacy challenges given the potential ability to persuade or dissuade large groups online to move from rhetoric to action.
Michael Moats - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An Existential–Humanistic Perspective on Black Lives Matter and Contemporary Protest Movements
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2016Co-Authors: Louis Hoffman, Nathaniel Granger, Lisa Vallejos, Michael MoatsAbstract:Contemporary Protests Movements, which are distinguished from historic Movements by relying on decentralized leadership and utilizing social media and technology, have a central role in addressing social justice issues. Black Lives Matter represents one of the most influential and controversial of the contemporary Protests Movements. Much of the controversy is connected to misunderstanding, distorted portrayals, and attempts to discredit the movement. Through an examination of the history of Black Lives Matter, and consideration of issues such as privilege and polarization, it can be recognized that the Black Lives Matter movement is providing a healthy cultural critique and creative use of pain, anger, and suffering to advocate for human dignity and positive cultural change. Furthermore, the principles of existential–humanistic psychology can be used to deepen the understanding of Black Lives Matter and other Protest Movements, while also offering important guidance on how to avoid various potential risk...
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an existential humanistic perspective on black lives matter and contemporary Protest Movements
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2016Co-Authors: Louis Hoffman, Nathaniel Granger, Lisa Vallejos, Michael MoatsAbstract:Contemporary Protests Movements, which are distinguished from historic Movements by relying on decentralized leadership and utilizing social media and technology, have a central role in addressing social justice issues. Black Lives Matter represents one of the most influential and controversial of the contemporary Protests Movements. Much of the controversy is connected to misunderstanding, distorted portrayals, and attempts to discredit the movement. Through an examination of the history of Black Lives Matter, and consideration of issues such as privilege and polarization, it can be recognized that the Black Lives Matter movement is providing a healthy cultural critique and creative use of pain, anger, and suffering to advocate for human dignity and positive cultural change. Furthermore, the principles of existential–humanistic psychology can be used to deepen the understanding of Black Lives Matter and other Protest Movements, while also offering important guidance on how to avoid various potential risk...
Arild Schou - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Elite Identification in Collective Protest Movements: A Reconsideration of The Reputational Method with Application to The Palestinian Intifada
2006Co-Authors: Arild SchouAbstract:Identifying and studying the role of political leaders in low-intensity collective Protest Movements with informal leadership structure poses extraordinary challenges. This article argues that the procedures associated with the reputational school of power are useful, particularly when the procedures are made more reliable and sophisticated. By selecting a panel of judges according to specific criteria it is possible to ensure that presumably knowledgeable persons are included, to explore whether the panel design is biased, and even to test whether the perceptions of the judges are accurate. It is also possible to identify the leaders using additional indicators ofprominence than reputed influence. The article is based on the author's experience ident65 , ing the "spokespersons" of the Palestinian intifada Some of the most intriguing and potentially significant methodological issues in the studies of political elites have remained largely dormant since the golden age of elite studies within political science and sociology in the 1950s and 1960s. The field is currently without a clear sense of direction, without priorities, and without any agreedupon methodological procedures for identifying elites. A major reason for this malaise has been what Domhoff and Dye have called the "conceptual swamp": the concept of "elite" has no agreed-upon meaning and no perceived theoretical utility (1987: 237). Various schools in the study of power tend to hold on to their own concept of "elite" and their own procedures for identifying elites, thereby blocking the possibility for cumulative empirical research within a uniform paradigm. The aim of this article is not to restore the field of elite theory. It is rather to reconsider the methodological procedures within one of these schools, the "reputational school of power" (Hunter 1963), and to discuss its relevance for identifying elites in lowintensity collective Protest Movements with informal leadership structures. The empirical point of departure is the "spokespersons" of the intifada in the Israeli-occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem).' These are distinct from the clandestine elites, the secular United National Leadership of the Uprising (UNLU), or the clandestine leadership of the Islamic movement.
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Elite Identification in Collective Protest Movements: A Reconsideration of The Reputational Method with Application to The Palestinian Intifada
Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 1997Co-Authors: Arild SchouAbstract:Identifying and studying the role of political leaders in low-intensity collective Protest Movements with informal leadership structure poses extraordinary challenges. This article argues that the procedures associated with the reputational school of power are useful, particularly when the procedures are made more reliable and sophisticated. By selecting a panel of judges according to specific criteria it is possible to ensure that presumably knowledgeable persons are included, to explore whether the panel design is biased, and even to test whether the perceptions of the judges are accurate. It is also possible to identify the leaders using additional indicators ofprominence than reputed influence. The article is based on the author's experience ident65 ing the "spokespersons" of the Palestinian intifada
Natalia Criado - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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flash mobs arab spring and Protest Movements
Expert Systems With Applications, 2016Co-Authors: Natalia Criado, Awais Rashid, Larissa LeiteAbstract:We present a model to analyse online group identities on textual conversations.Our model applies data mining, NLP and sylometric techniques.Our model detects the salience of group identities with 95% accuracy.Our model is able to distinguish group identities from others with 84% accuracy.We identify features that may enable mal-actors to manipulate online groups. The Internet has provided people with new ways of expressing not only their individuality but also their collectivity i.e., their group affiliations. These group identities are the shared sense of belonging to a group. Online contact with others who share the same group identity can lead to cooperation and, even, coordination of social action initiatives both online and offline. Such social actions may be for the purposes of positive change, e.g., the Arab Spring in 2010, or disruptive, e.g., the England Riots in 2011. Stylometry and authorship attribution research has shown that it is possible to distinguish individuals based on their online language. In contrast, this work proposes and evaluates a model to analyse group identities online based on textual conversations amongst groups. We argue that textual features make it possible to automatically distinguish between different group identities and detect whether group identities are salient (i.e., most prominent) in the context of a particular conversation. We show that the salience of group identities can be detected with 95% accuracy and group identities can be distinguished from others with 84% accuracy. We also identify the most relevant features that may enable mal-actors to manipulate the actions of online groups. This has major implications for tools and techniques to drive positive social actions online or safeguard society from disruptive initiatives. At the same time, it poses privacy challenges given the potential ability to persuade or dissuade large groups online to move from rhetoric to action.
Jovial Wong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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collective action as narrativity and praxis theory and application to hong kong s urban Protest Movements
Public Policy and Administration, 2018Co-Authors: Raul P. Lejano, Ernest Chui, Jovial WongAbstract:Policy scholars need to better describe the diversity of actors and interests that forge collective political action through nonformal social networks. The authors find extant theories of collective action to only partially explain such heterogeneity, which is exemplified by the urban Protest Movements in Hong Kong. A new concept, that of the narrative-network, appears better able to describe Movements chiefly characterized by heterogeneity. Instead of simple commonalities among members, a relevant property is the plurivocity of narratives told by members of the coalition. Analyzing ethnographic interviews of members of the movement, the authors illustrate the utility of narrative-network analysis in explaining the complex and multiple motivations behind participation. Narrativity and the shared act of narration, within an inclusive and democratic community, are part of what sustains the movement. The research further develops the theory of the narrative-network, which helps explain the rise of street pro...
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Collective action as narrativity and praxis: Theory and application to Hong Kong’s urban Protest Movements
Public Policy and Administration, 2017Co-Authors: Raul P. Lejano, Ernest Chui, Jovial WongAbstract:Policy scholars need to better describe the diversity of actors and interests that forge collective political action through nonformal social networks. The authors find extant theories of collective action to only partially explain such heterogeneity, which is exemplified by the urban Protest Movements in Hong Kong. A new concept, that of the narrative-network, appears better able to describe Movements chiefly characterized by heterogeneity. Instead of simple commonalities among members, a relevant property is the plurivocity of narratives told by members of the coalition. Analyzing ethnographic interviews of members of the movement, the authors illustrate the utility of narrative-network analysis in explaining the complex and multiple motivations behind participation. Narrativity and the shared act of narration, within an inclusive and democratic community, are part of what sustains the movement. The research further develops the theory of the narrative-network, which helps explain the rise of street pro...
