A Computational Framework for Multi-Modal Social Action Identification
Social and Information Networks
2017-10-30 v2 Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Physics and Society
Abstract
We create a computational framework for understanding social action and demonstrate how this framework can be used to build an open-source event detection tool with scalable statistical machine learning algorithms and a subsampled database of over 600 million geo-tagged Tweets from around the world. These Tweets were collected between April 1st, 2014 and April 30th, 2015, most notably when the Black Lives Matter movement began. We demonstrate how these methods can be used diagnostically-by researchers, government officials and the public-to understand peaceful and violent collective action at very fine-grained levels of time and geography.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.07728,
title = {A Computational Framework for Multi-Modal Social Action Identification},
author = {Jason Anastasopoulos and Jake Ryland Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.07728},
year = {2017}
}