The geospatial characteristics of a social movement communication network.
The geospatial characteristics of a social movement communication network.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0055957
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发表时间：
2013
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Flammini A
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文献类型：
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作者：
Conover MD;Davis C;Ferrara E;McKelvey K;Menczer F;Flammini A
社会运动在很大程度上依赖网络通信技术来组织和传播与运动目标相关的信息。在这项工作中，我们试图了解抗议运动的目标和需求如何反映在其传播网络的地理模式中，以及这些模式与稳定的政治传播有何不同。为此，我们研究了一个在线通信网络，该网络由 36 周内超过 600,000 条推文重建而成，涵盖了美国反资本主义运动“占领华尔街”的诞生和成熟。我们发现，与稳定的国内政治传播网络相比，“占领华尔街”网络表现出更高水平的地方性和轴辐结构，其中大部分非本地注意力被分配到纽约、加利福尼亚和华盛顿特区等知名地点。此外，我们观察到，跨州边界的信息流更有可能包含框架语言和对媒体的引用，而同一州内个人之间的交流更有可能引用抗议行动和特定地点和时间。将这些结果与社会运动理论联系起来，我们认为这些特征反映了该运动在地方层面动员资源并制定加强国家层面集体目标的叙事框架的努力。
Social movements rely in large measure on networked communication technologies to organize and disseminate information relating to the movements’ objectives. In this work we seek to understand how the goals and needs of a protest movement are reflected in the geographic patterns of its communication network, and how these patterns differ from those of stable political communication. To this end, we examine an online communication network reconstructed from over 600,000 tweets from a thirty-six week period covering the birth and maturation of the American anticapitalist movement, Occupy Wall Street. We find that, compared to a network of stable domestic political communication, the Occupy Wall Street network exhibits higher levels of locality and a hub and spoke structure, in which the majority of non-local attention is allocated to high-profile locations such as New York, California, and Washington D.C. Moreover, we observe that information flows across state boundaries are more likely to contain framing language and references to the media, while communication among individuals in the same state is more likely to reference protest action and specific places and times. Tying these results to social movement theory, we propose that these features reflect the movement’s efforts to mobilize resources at the local level and to develop narrative frames that reinforce collective purpose at the national level.
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DOI：
10.1002/asi.21149
发表时间：
2009-11-01
影响因子：
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作者：
Jansen, Bernard J.;Zhang, Mimi;Chowdury, Abdur
通讯作者：
Chowdury, Abdur
影响因子：
4.1
作者：
MYERS, DJ
通讯作者：
MYERS, DJ
影响因子：
3.6
作者：
Ciulla, Fabio;Mocanu, Delia;Vespignani, Alessandro
通讯作者：
Vespignani, Alessandro
影响因子：
4.6
作者：
Mathiesen, Joachim;Yde, Pernille;Jensen, Mogens H.
通讯作者：
Jensen, Mogens H.
影响因子：
4.6
作者：
Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra;Borge-Holthoefer, Javier;Rivero, Alejandro;Moreno, Yamir
通讯作者：
Moreno, Yamir