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