Protests

D Cantoni, A Kao, DY Yang… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Citizens have long taken to the streets to demand change, expressing political views that
may otherwise be suppressed. Protests have produced change at local, national, and …

Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media

S Rathje, JJ Van Bavel, S Van Der Linden - Proceedings of the national …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
There has been growing concern about the role social media plays in political polarization.
We investigated whether out-group animosity was particularly successful at generating …

“Born for a storm”: Hard-right social media and civil unrest

D Karell, A Linke, E Holland… - American sociological …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Does activity on hard-right social media lead to hard-right civil unrest? If so, why? We
created a spatial panel dataset comprising hard-right social media use and incidents of …

[ספר][B] Do pandemics lead to rebellion? Policy responses to COVID-19, inequality, and protests in the USA

F Iacoella, P Justino, B Martorano - 2021‏ - econstor.eu
This paper analyses how inequality across counties in the United States of America has
shaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of protests. The empirical …

Partisan selective exposure and politically polarized attitudes toward disruptive protest

KJ Lorenzano, SJ Moon… - Communication and the …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
While many Americans support the right to protest, increased animus has recently been
directed at protesters themselves, often along partisan ideological lines and in partisan …

Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-19

F Iacoella, P Justino… - Journal of Conflict …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This paper analyses how pre-pandemic levels of inequality across US counties have
shaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of protests. The results from …

Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US

F Smith, A Simchon, D Holford… - Communications …, 2025‏ - nature.com
The generation and distribution of hyper-partisan content on social media has gained
millions of exposure across platforms, often allowing malevolent actors to influence and …

They're Still There, He's All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home

RJ McAlexander, MA Rubin… - American Political Science …, 2024‏ - cambridge.org
What explains right-wing radicalization in the United States? Existing research emphasizes
demographic changes, economic insecurity, and elite polarization. This paper highlights an …

Post or protest?: Factors influencing white women's engagement in activism

K Hynes, ME Donnelly, BM Banks… - Journal of Human …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
We investigated how engagement in activism among white women is predicted by their
political efficacy, exposure to gendered microaggressions (ie, verbal and/or nonverbal …

The Spatial Impact of Crowds in the Chilean Social Explosion: A Case Study of Postpolitical Democracy

F Vergara-Perucich - Papers in Applied Geography, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
This paper introduces an innovative methodology for estimating crowd sizes at significant
events, particularly focusing on protests. This method combines aerial photography with …