Getting this paper published was quite a ride. Thrilled to see it out now! 🎢 ✨
Analyzing ~740k coordinated tweets during China’s COVID-19 protests, we found communities amplifying protest, and others pushing repression through distracting and demoralizing content.
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Annie Waldherr
📢 New publication!
“Connective action and digital repression during China’s COVID-19 protests: a computational analysis of multilingual coordinated activity on Twitter" w/ brilliant Paul Balluff, @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, @anniewald.bsky.social out in EPJ Data Sci.
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In authoritarian contexts, social media serve as critical platforms for coordinating both protest and repression. This study centers on the unprecedented COVID-19 protests in the People’s Republic of ...