Everyday activism: an AI-assisted netnography of a digital consumer movement

RV Kozinets, M Seraj-Aksit - Journal of Marketing Management, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Prior studies have tended to focus on the figure of consumer movements rather than the
ground from which they arise. This AI-assisted netnography interprets data from the …

WallStreetBets: assessing the collective intelligence of Reddit for investment advice

T Buz, G de Melo - ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The WallStreetBets (WSB) community on Reddit gained prominence for its role in the
GameStop saga and the resulting meme stock phenomenon. Concurrently, this has boosted …

The behavioral biases of cryptocurrency retail investors: Lessons from ICOs

F Tronnier, P Hamm, D Harborth - Activist Retail Investors and the …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Following a significant increase in media attention with the exorbitant rise in Bitcoin prices in
2017, initial coin offerings (ICOs) were introduced as a new way for organizations and …

Trading as Gambling: Social Investing and Financial Risks on the r/WallStreetBets Subreddit

Y Kou, S Moradzadeh, X Gui - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Financial trading has become commonplace, involving the purchase and sale of securities
such as stocks and bonds. While HCI research has investigated people's financial literacy …

Highly Regarded Investors? Mining Predictive Value from the Collective Intelligence of Reddit's WallStreetBets

T Buz, M Schneider, LA Kaffee, G De Melo - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In 2021, the Reddit community of WallStreetBets (WSB) started making headlines in the
mainstream media as a source of risky investment ideas called YOLOs, and meme stocks …

The tension between connective action and platformisation: disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze

M Vaughan, JB Gruber, AI Langer - new media & society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Although the Reddit-led short squeeze of GameStop shares in 2021 drew comparisons with
Occupy Wall Street, this article focuses on one key area of difference: where Occupy …

Wisdom of the Crowds or Ignorance of the Masses? A data-driven guide to WSB

V Semenova, D Gorduza, W Wildi, X Dong… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A trite yet fundamental question in economics is: What causes large asset price fluctuations?
A tenfold rise in the price of GameStop equity, between the 22nd and 28th of January 2021 …

One-way ticket to the moon? An NLP-based insight on the phenomenon of small-scale neo-broker trading

G Kant, I Zhelyazkov, A Thielmann, C Weisser… - Social Network Analysis …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract We present an Natural Language Processing based analysis on the phenomenon
of “Meme Stocks”, which has emerged as a result of the proliferation of neo-brokers like …

Political costs and strategic corporate communication

C Cuny, J Kim, MN Mehta - Available at SSRN 4102423, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Do industries use advertising strategically when subject to the threat of political costs?
Communication via advertising can help assuage public concerns, which reduces the …

APES TOGETHER STRONG!!! An Exploratory Case Study Into Newcomer Socialization Within the GameStop Movement

S Luser, T Schreier - 2022 - diva-portal.org
Background:“APES TOGETHER STRONG “was one of the slogans, that participants of the
influential GameStop movement (who ironically called themselves “apes “) utilized to show …