Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square

By Zeynep Tufekci, Christopher Wilson. 2012

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Big Questions for Social Media Big Data: Representativeness, Validity and Other Methodological Pitfalls (2014, background): “The most common pattern was that users alternate between Facebook, Twitter, broadcast media, cell-phone conversations, texting, face-to-face and other methods of interaction and information sharing (Tufekci & Wilson, 2012).”
Analyzing the Digital Traces of Political Manipulation: The 2016 Russian Interference Twitter Campaign (2018, background): “Findings that focused on the positive effects of social media, such as increasing voter turnout [10] or exposure to diverse political views [7] contributed to the general praise of these platforms as a tool for promoting democracy and civic engagement [22, 36, 49, 52, 53].”
Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science? (2023, background): “, 2011), policy change (Flores, 2017), social movements (Nelson, 2021; Sech et al., 2020; Rogers et al., 2019; Tufekci and Wilson, 2012), and international relations (King and Lowe, 2003).”
Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election (2017, background): “Whether in the context of civil movements (Howard, et al., 2011; González-Bailón, et al., 2011; Tufekci & Wilson, 2012; González-Bailón, et al., 2013; Tufekci, 2014; Bastos, et al., 2014), political outreach (Bond, et al., 2012; Bakshy, et al., 2015), public health interventions (Centola, 2010;…”
Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review (2016, background): “discussed whether social media can be used to promote civic and political engagement, but have not been able to reach a clear consensus on the matter (Ellison et al., 2009; Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2012; Gladwell, 2010; Macafee and De Simone, 2012; Morozov, 2011; Tufekci and Wilson, 2012; Valenzuela et”
Characterizing the 2016 Russian IRA influence campaign (2018, background): “…turnout Bond et al. (2012) or exposure to diverse political views Bakshy et al. (2015) contribute to the general praise of these platforms as a tool for promoting democracy and civic engagement Effing et al. (2011); Loader and Mercea (2011); Shirky (2011); Tufekci (2014); Tufekci and Wilson (2012).”