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Say Their Names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd
Henry H. Wu, Ryan J. Gallagher, Thayer Alshaabi +7
The murder of George Floyd by police in May 2020 sparked international protests and renewed attention in the Black Lives Matter movement. Here, we characterize ways in which the on…
The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global misogynistic community
Kelly Gothard, David Rushing Dewhurst, Joshua R. Minot +3
Evolving out of a gender-neutral framing of an involuntary celibate identity, the concept of `incels' has come to refer to an online community of men who bear antipathy towards the…
Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter
Thayer Alshaabi, Jane L. Adams, Michael V. Arnold +5
In real-time, social media data strongly imprints world events, popular culture, and day-to-day conversations by millions of ordinary people at a scale that is scarcely conventiona…
Hurricanes and hashtags: Characterizing online collective attention for natural disasters
Michael V. Arnold, David Rushing Dewhurst, Thayer Alshaabi +4
We study collective attention paid towards hurricanes through the lens of -grams on Twitter, a social media platform with global reach. Using hurricane name mentions as a proxy…