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Closed Ranks: The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians on Social Media
Agrima Seth, Soham De, Arshia Arya +3
Influencers play a crucial role in shaping public narratives through information creation and diffusion in the Global South. While public figures from various walks of life and the…
Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter
Arshia Arya, Soham De, Dibyendu Mishra +12
Databases of highly networked individuals have been indispensable in studying narratives and influence on social media. To support studies on Twitter in India, we present a systema…
Insights Into Incitement: A Computational Perspective on Dangerous Speech on Twitter in India
Saloni Dash, Rynaa Grover, Gazal Shekhawat +3
Dangerous speech on social media platforms can be framed as blatantly inflammatory, or be couched in innuendo. It is also centrally tied to who engages it - it can be driven by ope…
Extremism & Whataboutism: A Case Study on Bangalore Riots
Saloni Dash, Gazal Shekhawat, Syeda Zainab Akbar +1
A common diversionary tactic used to deflect attention from contested issues is whataboutery which, when used by majoritarian groups to justify their behaviour against marginalised…
Sporting the government: Twitter as a window into sportspersons' engagement with causes in India and USA
Dibyendu Mishra, Ronojoy Sen, Joyojeet Pal
With the ubiquitous reach of social media, influencers are increasingly central to articulation of political agendas on a range of topics. We curate a sample of tweets from the 200…
Divided We Rule: Influencer Polarization on Twitter During Political Crises in India
Saloni Dash, Dibyendu Mishra, Gazal Shekhawat +1
Influencers are key to the nature and networks of information propagation on social media. Influencers are particularly important in political discourse through their engagement wi…