Method for monitoring and diagnosing local incidents with the potential for protest mobilization.

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.A. Vitkova ◽  
◽  
I.U. Zelichenok
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Textual Features ◽  
Hierarchical Relationships ◽  
Protest Activity ◽  
Information Objects

The article presents a methodology for monitoring and diagnosing local incidents with the potential for protest activity, which consists of four main steps and five related modules. The method differs from its analogues in that it takes into account the textual features of the network strategies of communication participants, hierarchical relationships between information objects, and attributes of audience activity in social networks. At the same time, the technique provides diagnostics of a local incident and detection of the beginning of its artificial mediatization. The article also demonstrates the results of experimental studies.

scholarly journals Online Rebellion: Self-Organized Criticality of Contemporary Protest Movements

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092335
Author(s):  
Dmitry Zhukov ◽  
Konstantin Kunavin ◽  
Sergey Lyamin
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
Mass Actions ◽  
Protest Activity

The theory of self-organized criticality (SOC) is applicable for explaining powerful surges of protest activity on social media. The objects of study were two protest clusters. The first was a set of Facebook groups that promoted the impeachment of the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. The second was a set of groups on the social network Vkontakte that provided support for anti-government rallies in Armenia, referred to as Electric Yerevan. Numerous groups in the examined clusters were functioning in SOC mode during certain periods. Those clusters were able to generate information avalanches—seemingly spontaneous, powerful surges of creation, transmission, and reproduction of information. The facts are presented that supported the assumptions that SOC effects in social networks are associated with mass actions on the streets, including violence. The observations of SOC make it possible to reveal certain periods when the course of a sociopolitical system is least stable.

How Social Networks Shape Social Comparison

2019 ◽  
pp. 443-461
Author(s):  
Jingwen Zhang ◽  
Damon Centola
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Comparison Research ◽  
The Social

While social comparison research has focused on the processes and consequences of how the comparer gleans information from the comparison other (individual or group), recent research on social networks demonstrates how information and influence are distributed across persons in a network. This chapter reviews social influence processes in social networks. The authors first review recent research on social comparison and its negative consequences in online social networks. Then the authors delve into discussing the social network causes of biased social perceptions online and how this can be remedied by building more accurate perceptions through constructed online networks. Lastly, the authors discuss findings from recent experimental studies that illustrate how constructed online networks can harness social comparison to induce significant changes in health behavior.

The History of the Transformation of Internet Activism in Belarus (on the Example of Political Protests of 2020—2021)

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6 (104)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Sergey Kozlov
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Internet Activism ◽  
Protest Activity

The article examines the problem of political participation in the digital environment on the example of protest activity observing in Belarus. It is shown that modern Internet technologies make it easy to combine new forms of civic activism with offline practices through social media and Telegram channels. It is argued that social networks and Internet activism in general indirectly form the political agenda and are significant factors in the creation of public reflection on political processes. New forms of civil interaction have appeared in digital reality, which were impossible without online technologies, and before the surge of protest activity in the post-Soviet space were considered insignificant quasi-political participation of the minority. Whole communicative autonomous systems created in social networks and messenger applications allow political activity bypassing traditional rules and frameworks, which, according to the author, is nothing more than a qualitative transformation and complication of political participation, both structurally and in scale. The Belarusian format of the protest showed that in the current conditions the success of a political campaign may not be due to clear coordination and competent management emanating from the core of protest. Analyzing political cases, it is concluded that modern protest practices, decentralized formed in the network, in an offline manifestation are very mobile and do not require significant expenditure of forces and resources. In conclusion, the author concludes that political participation in Belarus, conditioned by Internet resources and advanced technologies, from 2020 to 2021 acquired the features of a conventional active opposition political movement, although historically, political absenteeism prevailed in the country's civil society. Thus, the events in Belarus under consideration are unique and are a sign of more global modern transformations of politics.

scholarly journals Social Media as a Tool of Socio-Political Destabilisation of Society: Lessons, Trends, Prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
V. Sh. Surguladze
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Protest Activity

The article analyses the stages of information confrontation in social networks aimed at transforming protest activity from a virtual space into real life in the form of street actions and practical actions to change the current socio-political situation. The author considers one of the critical threats of social media to the socio-political stability of society the attempts of using them to influence changes in the collective psychology, motivation and behaviour of citizens. The author gives examples of the IT industry and government agencies of the United States, whose cooperation provides the United States with unprecedented opportunities to influence the global information space and analyses the experience and methodology of political mobilisation of the masses in social networks during the events of the Facebook revolution in Egypt 2010–2011. Based on the understanding of the real experience, the author identifies the stages and methods of reformatting virtual protest activity in the real one, as well as identifies the biographical features of the leaders of online protest movements and proposes measures to counteract the information threats of social media. According to the author, one of the most effective mechanisms to counter the threats of social media is the implementation of a comprehensive state identity policy focused on maintaining and developing the existing pivot points of the consensus collective national identity of the society.

Comparative Analysis and Experience of Using Social Network Analysis Information Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 3166-3172
Author(s):  
O. B. Kalugina ◽  
U. V. Mikhailova ◽  
R. R. Dema
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Commercial Organizations

At present, in open sources of social networks and mass media every second there is a huge amount of information, the analysis of which can significantly effect both the activities of corporations, industries, and the social and political life of citizens. Our article describes the processes occurring in online media and social networks, the characteristics of natural and controlled information dissemination. This paper reviews and classifies mass systems for analyzing social networks, as well as users of similar systems of analysis. These are systems for commercial organizations, systems designed for use by public authorities, defence and law enforcement agencies, research developments for analyzing social networks. Currently, the most developed systems for analyzing social networks are systems for commercial organizations. Examples of experimental studies of social networks by the Russian company InfoWatch Kribrum are given. In conclusion, a comparative analysis of the considered systems is given and conclusions are made about their advantages and disadvantages.

scholarly journals AndroidTrack: An Investigation of Using Social Networks’ Applications in Android Platforms

2021 ◽  
pp. 2445-2453
Author(s):  
Ahmed A. Mostfa ◽  
Fedaa Noeel Abdulahad ◽  
Abdel-Nasser Sharkawy
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Android Application ◽  
The Social ◽  
Android Applications ◽  
Real Time Database ◽  
Statistical Factor Analysis

     In this paper, time spent and the repetition of using the Social Network Sites (SNS) in Android applications are investigated. In this approach, we seek to raise the awareness and limit, but not eliminate the repeated uses of SNS, by introducing AndroidTrack. This AndroidTrack is an android application that was designed to monitor and apply valid experimental studies in order to improve the impacts of social media on Iraqi users. Data generated from the app were aggregated and updated periodically at Google Firebase Real-time Database. The statistical factor analysis (FA) was presented as a result of the user’s interactions.

scholarly journals YouTube as a Factor in Shaping the Protest Potential of Young People

REGIONOLOGY ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxim Yu. Bareev ◽  
Irina O. Kachurina
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Special Services ◽  
Protest Activity

Introduction. The relevance of the work is due to the increased protest activity of young people in recent years, resulting from the dissatisfaction with the actions of the supreme authorities. Young people’s solidarity on a number of sociopolitical issues and the ability to consolidate in protest activity, if the situation requires it, invite considerations of the presence of a serious protest potential among young people. The purpose of the work is to study the influence of the Russian segment of YouTube on the formation of the protest potential of young people in a region. Materials and Methods. The article presents the materials of the sociological survey ‘Analysis of the Potential of YouTube as a Factor in the Formation of the Protest Movement among Young People’ conducted using the sampling method (availability sampling) in accordance with the methodology devised by J. Mueller and K. Schuessler. Results. The study has revealed that the overwhelming majority of young people in the region are aware of various protests taking place in Russia. An interesting and at the same time contradictory trend of ‘ageing’ of the protest potential in the regions has been noticed: the older the respondents are the more proportion of them watch ‘oppositional’ YouTube channels. The ‘oppositional’ channels most viewed by young people have been identified, they are: Alexey Navalny’s сhannel, ‘Dozhd’ (TV Rain) channel, ‘Kamikadzedead’, ‘VALERON 2%’, and ‘Novosti SVERKHDERZHAVY’ (Superpower News). Discussion and Conclusion. Analysis of the research results has shown that YouTube is the second most popular media resource in Russia and, along with social networks, is becoming an influential discourse platform for discussing socially important domestic issues, where the so-called ‘oppositional’ YouTube channels have a significant influence on public opinion, form a news agenda, set the tone for public debate. The results of the study can be used by the authorities in improving regional information and socio-economic policies, by law enforcement officers and special services for the development and planning of programs to prevent manifestations of extremism.

scholarly journals Social networks as a platform protest activity

2020 ◽  
pp. 3302-3307
Author(s):  
Anastasia Avenirovna Nikitinskaya ◽  
◽  
Olga Nikolaevna Russova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Protest Activity
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