This paper presents a critical discussion of the processing, reliability and implications of free
big data repositories. We argue that big data is not only the starting point of scientific …

The social media age has drawn vast amounts of attention to modern social movements.
Movements such as Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street have reinvigorated …

Protest event analysis is a key method to study social movements, allowing to systematically
analyze protest events over time and space. However, the manual coding of protest events …

Civil unrest events (protests, strikes, and “occupy” events) are common occurrences in both
democracies and authoritarian regimes. The study of civil unrest is a key topic for political …

Abstract The advent of Big Data has shifted social science research towards computational
methods. The volume of data that is nowadays available has brought a radical change in …

How accurate is media-elicited protest event data from autocracies where the state censors
the media? Based on a source-specific model of event selection and a multisource dataset …

Protest event analysis (PEA) is attractive to social movement scholars because it is an
unobtrusive technique that can cope with unstructured data, that can be adapted to the …

Event detection based on textual data is an approach often used in the social sciences. The
method has been used predominantly in the fields of international politics (Schrodt 2010) …

We call for a relational approach to constructing protest event data from news sources to
provide tools for detecting and correcting errors and for capturing the relations among …

The volume and velocity of available online sources have changed journalistic research in
terms of cost and effort required for discovering stories. However, the heterogeneity and …