Images play a crucial role in shaping and reflecting political life. Digitization has vastly
increased the presence of such images in daily life, creating valuable new research …

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 …

Emotions are a central driving force of activism; they motivate participation in movements
and encourage sustained involvement. We use natural language processing techniques to …

Scholars increasingly use Twitter data to study the life sciences and politics. However,
Twitter data collection tools often pose challenges for scholars who are unfamiliar with their …

Do mass mobilizations bring about social change? This paper explores this question by
studying the impact of the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted after George Floyd's death …

Automated image analysis has received increasing attention in social scientific research, yet
existing scholarship has mostly covered the application of supervised learning to classify …

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 …

Does collective identity drive protest participation? A long line of research argues that
collective identity can explain why protesters do not free ride and how specific movement …

This article investigates how women emerged as political subjects through protests in two
post-colonial contexts: the Hazara women's protests in Pakistan against ethno-sectarian …

Background: Although COVID-19 has disproportionately affected socio-economically
vulnerable populations, research on its impact on socio-economic disparities in unhealthy …