Media are central to the dynamics of protest and social movements. Contemporary social
movements face a shifting environment composed of new media technologies and platforms …

In this article, we explore the potential role of social media in helping movements expand
and/or strengthen themselves internally, processes we refer to as scaling up. Drawing on a …

Social media (SM) data provides a vast record of humanity's everyday thoughts, feelings,
and actions at a resolution previously unimaginable. Because user behavior on SM is a …

The exercise of power has been an implicit theme in research on the use of social media for
political protest, but few studies have attempted to measure social media power and its …

Online harassment is a complex and growing problem. On Twitter, one mechanism people
use to avoid harassment is the blocklist, a list of accounts that are preemptively blocked from …

Many hoped that social networking sites would allow for the open exchange of information
and a revival of the public sphere. Unfortunately, conversations on social media are often …

Do images affect online political mobilization? If so, how? These questions are of
fundamental importance to scholars of social movements, contentious politics, and political …

As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are
these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as sources of …

Political trolls initiate online discord not only for the lulz (laughs), but also for ideological
reasons, such as promoting their desired political candidates. Political troll groups recently …

Predictive analysis of social media data has attracted considerable attention from the
research community as well as the business world because of the essential and actionable …