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 …

Sociological research on online discourse increasingly uses digital data consisting of
messages combining multiple modes of media, with meaning arising from contents' …

Social media has become an excellent way to discover people's thoughts about various
topics and situations. In recent years, many studies have focused on social media during …

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified numerous social issues that warrant academic
investigation. Although information dissemination has been extensively studied, the silenced …

Can protests produce changes in electoral behavior? In this paper, we examine variations in
voter turnout and electoral preferences at the local level after a protest cycle. Using data on …

Computer vision techniques have recently burst onto the scene in visual political
communication research, dramatically extending the scope of digital image and video …

Event detection, specifically in the socio-political domain, has posed a long-standing
challenge to researchers in the NLP domain. Therefore, the creation of automated …

In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) has seen rapid advancements over
standardized tasks and carefully curated data sets. However, these models and benchmarks …