A scalable machine learning approach for measuring violent and peaceful forms of political protest participation with social media data.

In this paper, we introduce a scalable machine learning approach accompanied by open-source software for identifying violent and peaceful forms of political protest participation using social media data. While violent political protests are statistically rare events, they often shape public percepti...

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Main Authors: Lefteris Jason Anastasopoulos, Jake Ryland Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212834