How do state and protester violence affect whether protests grow or shrink? Previous
research finds conflicting results for how violence affects protest dynamics. This article …

As audiences have moved to digital media, so too have governments around the world.
While previous research has focused on how authoritarian regimes employ strategies such …

In this chapter, we provide a fair assessment of these advantages and limitations in the use
of social media as data generators for research in the social sciences, with a particular …

This study examines short videos sourced from the Douyin accounts of Chinese central and
local news agencies spanning the period from 2018 to 2023, aiming to shed light on the …

How do international crises unfold? We conceptualize international relations as a strategic
chess game between adversaries and develop a systematic way to measure pieces, moves …

Politicians have used the web and social media to circumvent the gatekeeping behavior of
traditional mass media by directly communicating with supporters in their accounts. This …

Social media have been widely used as a platform for political communication, promoting
firsthand dialogue between politicians and the public. This paper studies the role of visual …

Data and methods development are key to improve our ability to forecast conflict. Relatively
recent data sources such as mobile phone and social media data or images have received …

As of January 2020, 3.8 billion people around the world are regularly active on one form of
social media or another (Kemp, 2020), a massive global adoption which has had profound …

An event is a geographically and temporally focused 'nonroutine, collective and public'action
aimed at making broad social or political claims (Olzak, 1989, p. 124). Event attendance …