In recent years, protesters in the United States have clashed violently with police and
counter-protesters on numerous occasions,–. Despite widespread media attention, little …

Online radicalization is among the most vexing challenges the world faces today. Here, we
demonstrate that homogeneity in moral concerns results in increased levels of radical …

Political debate concerning moralized issues is increasingly common in online social
networks. However, moral psychology has yet to incorporate the study of social networks to …

Moral outrage shapes fundamental aspects of social life and is now widespread in online
social networks. Here, we show how social learning processes amplify online moral outrage …

As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, it is
important to understand the dynamics of emotion perception online. Here, we propose that …

The study of social media is becoming a subject of increasing importance for political
science. Scholars are beginning to take seriously the claims that social media might lead to …

We analyze the communication network that emerged in social media around an
international protest campaign launched in May 2012. Applying insights from network …

With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for
moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence …

In recent years, scholars have argued that protests that employ nonviolent tactics attract
greater support and are therefore more likely to succeed than those that use violence. We …

Pinning down the role of social ties in the decision to protest has been notoriously elusive,
largely due to data limitations. Social media and their global use by protesters offer an …