Add to ORKGImages are central to understanding protests and mass activism today for its impact in shaping public opinion. Previously, analyzing protest images required human annotation, which is laborious and expensive. In the modern era of social media, an automated and systematic method is required to analyze the vast amounts of social media images. In this thesis, I introduce a deep-learning computational framework to analyze protest images. This system comprises of (1) processing and parsing social media images from Twitter, (2) a model to identify common protest image characteristics, such as violence, fire, and police, models to (3) detect and (4) classify faces of protesters to understand demographics, and (5) an deduplication algorithm to iden...
Thinking within the field of social media and communication has recently taken an “algorithmicturn”....
Who goes to protests? To answer this question, existing research has relied either on retrospective ...
The diffusion of new information and communication technologies-social media in particular-has playe...
In this paper, we introduce a scalable machine learning approach accompanied by open-source software...
In this paper, we introduce a scalable machine learning approach accompanied by open-source software...
Social media data enables political scientists to observe phenomena that have been otherwise difficu...
This thesis develops a model that estimates the number of participants in a protest event. My centra...
This research quantitatively investigates the impact of violence on the propagation of images in soc...
Protest event analysis is an important method for the study of collective action and social movement...
Above. A time series showing the total presence of social action types during the week of the People...
Above. Time series showing the total presence of social action types in Ferguson, MO the week after ...
Above. A time series showing the total presence of social action types during the week of the Occupy...
Studying images in social media poses specific methodological challenges, which in turn have directe...
Portrayals of violence are common in contemporary media reporting; they attract public attention and...
Over the past years the exponential growth of social media usage has given the power to every indivi...
Thinking within the field of social media and communication has recently taken an “algorithmicturn”....
Who goes to protests? To answer this question, existing research has relied either on retrospective ...
The diffusion of new information and communication technologies-social media in particular-has playe...
In this paper, we introduce a scalable machine learning approach accompanied by open-source software...
In this paper, we introduce a scalable machine learning approach accompanied by open-source software...
Social media data enables political scientists to observe phenomena that have been otherwise difficu...
This thesis develops a model that estimates the number of participants in a protest event. My centra...
This research quantitatively investigates the impact of violence on the propagation of images in soc...
Protest event analysis is an important method for the study of collective action and social movement...
Above. A time series showing the total presence of social action types during the week of the People...
Above. Time series showing the total presence of social action types in Ferguson, MO the week after ...
Above. A time series showing the total presence of social action types during the week of the Occupy...
Studying images in social media poses specific methodological challenges, which in turn have directe...
Portrayals of violence are common in contemporary media reporting; they attract public attention and...
Over the past years the exponential growth of social media usage has given the power to every indivi...
Thinking within the field of social media and communication has recently taken an “algorithmicturn”....
Who goes to protests? To answer this question, existing research has relied either on retrospective ...
The diffusion of new information and communication technologies-social media in particular-has playe...