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Anatomy of a Rumour: Social media and the suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Ankur Sharma, Himani Negi +2
The suicide of Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown triggered a media frenzy of prime time coverage that lasted several months and became a polit…
COVID, BLM, and the polarization of US politicians on Twitter
Anmol Panda, Divya Siddarth, Joyojeet Pal
We mapped the tweets of 520 US Congress members, focusing on analyzing their engagement with two broad topics: first, the COVID-19 pandemic, and second, the recent wave of anti-rac…
Indian Political Twitter and Caste Discrimination -- How Representation Does Not Equal Inclusion in Lok Sabha Networks
Palashi Vaghela, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Joyojeet Pal
Caste privilege persists in the form of upper caste "networks" in India made up of political, social, and economic relations that tend to actively exclude lower caste members. In t…