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American Political Science Review, 2022 oes social protest following the police killing of unarmed Black civilians have a widespread “ opinion-mobilizing ” effect against the police? Or, does the racialized nature of these events polarize mass opinion based on standing racial and political ...
Tyler T. Reny, Benjamin J. Newman
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The digital repression of social movements, protest, and activism: A synthetic review
Science Advances, 2022 Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions or policies that are meant to, or actually do, raise the costs of activism, protest, and/or social movement activity.
J. Earl, Thomas V. Maher, Jennifer Pan
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Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements
American Economic Review: Insights, 2021 We study the causes of sustained participation in political movements. To identify the persistent effect of protest participation, we randomly indirectly incentivize Hong Kong university students into participation in an antiauthoritarian protest.
Leonardo Bursztyn +12 more
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Cooptation and non-cooptation: elite strategies in response to social protest
Social Movement Studies, 2019 The risk of cooptation – of being absorbed by powerful elites without gaining new advantages – is an important concern in studies of social movements and social change. Through cooptation, elites undermine movements by stripping them of their credibility
Markus Holdo
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Conspiracy Beliefs, Misinformation, Social Media Platforms, and Protest Participation
Media and Communication, 2022 Protest has long been associated with left-wing actors and left-wing causes. However, right-wing actors also engage in protest. Are right-wing actors mobilized by the same factors as those actors on the left? This article uses cross-national survey data (
Shelley Boulianne, Sangwon Lee
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Social Media + Society, 2022 Protest music has historically been a central part of American social change movements. Although some protest music is used solely to bring attention to the evils of an oppressive group, another purpose it may serve is to foster positive self-definition ...
Olivia Sadler
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Social Media + Society, 2021 The rise of the Internet and social media has allowed individuals with different backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to communicate with one another in an open and largely unstructured way.
John D. Gallacher +2 more
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Unruly Women and Carnivalesque Countercontrol: Offensive Humor in Mediated Social Protest
Media and the Politics of Offence, 2018 At the Women’s March in January 2018, many protest posters featured offensive jokes at the expense of Trump’s body and behavior. Such posters were shared widely online, much to the amusement of the movement’s supporters. Through a close analysis of posts
Anne Graefer +2 more
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The People Demand Social Justice: The Social Protest in Israel as an Agoral Gathering
Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2018 The summer of 2011 has seen the first mass-scale social protest in Israel in its 70 years of existence. This social wave that shook the country, showed unique characteristics a-typical of most social and political uprisings, that go largely unexplained ...
Leehu Zysberg
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Social Protest and Its Discontents: A System Justification Perspective
, 2018 Psychological factors that encourage—as well as discourage—participation in social protest are often overlooked in the social sciences. In this article, we draw together recent contributions to the understanding of the social and psychological bases of ...
V. Badaan +6 more
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