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The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network
The recent wave of mobilizations in the Arab world and across Western countries has generated much discussion on how digital media is connected to the diffusion of protests. We examine that connection using data from the surge of mobilizations that took place in Spain in May 2011. We study recruitme...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3240992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22355712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00197 |
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author | González-Bailón, Sandra Borge-Holthoefer, Javier Rivero, Alejandro Moreno, Yamir |
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description | The recent wave of mobilizations in the Arab world and across Western countries has generated much discussion on how digital media is connected to the diffusion of protests. We examine that connection using data from the surge of mobilizations that took place in Spain in May 2011. We study recruitment patterns in the Twitter network and find evidence of social influence and complex contagion. We identify the network position of early participants (i.e. the leaders of the recruitment process) and of the users who acted as seeds of message cascades (i.e. the spreaders of information). We find that early participants cannot be characterized by a typical topological position but spreaders tend to be more central in the network. These findings shed light on the connection between online networks, social contagion, and collective dynamics, and offer an empirical test to the recruitment mechanisms theorized in formal models of collective action. |
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spelling | pubmed-32409922011-12-22 The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network González-Bailón, Sandra Borge-Holthoefer, Javier Rivero, Alejandro Moreno, Yamir Sci Rep Article The recent wave of mobilizations in the Arab world and across Western countries has generated much discussion on how digital media is connected to the diffusion of protests. We examine that connection using data from the surge of mobilizations that took place in Spain in May 2011. We study recruitment patterns in the Twitter network and find evidence of social influence and complex contagion. We identify the network position of early participants (i.e. the leaders of the recruitment process) and of the users who acted as seeds of message cascades (i.e. the spreaders of information). We find that early participants cannot be characterized by a typical topological position but spreaders tend to be more central in the network. These findings shed light on the connection between online networks, social contagion, and collective dynamics, and offer an empirical test to the recruitment mechanisms theorized in formal models of collective action. Nature Publishing Group 2011-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3240992/ /pubmed/22355712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00197 Text en Copyright © 2011, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareALike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article González-Bailón, Sandra Borge-Holthoefer, Javier Rivero, Alejandro Moreno, Yamir The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network |
title | The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network |
title_full | The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network |
title_fullStr | The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network |
title_full_unstemmed | The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network |
title_short | The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network |
title_sort | dynamics of protest recruitment through an online network |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3240992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22355712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00197 |
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