The digital evolution of occupy wall street.

We examine the temporal evolution of digital communication activity relating to the American anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street. Using a high-volume sample from the microblogging site Twitter, we investigate changes in Occupy participant engagement, interests, and social connectivity over a...

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Autores principales: Michael D Conover, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Menczer, Alessandro Flammini
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2980702858cc407ebac5375dc59cf6092021-11-18T07:43:55ZThe digital evolution of occupy wall street.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0064679https://doaj.org/article/2980702858cc407ebac5375dc59cf6092013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23734215/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203We examine the temporal evolution of digital communication activity relating to the American anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street. Using a high-volume sample from the microblogging site Twitter, we investigate changes in Occupy participant engagement, interests, and social connectivity over a fifteen month period starting three months prior to the movement's first protest action. The results of this analysis indicate that, on Twitter, the Occupy movement tended to elicit participation from a set of highly interconnected users with pre-existing interests in domestic politics and foreign social movements. These users, while highly vocal in the months immediately following the birth of the movement, appear to have lost interest in Occupy related communication over the remainder of the study period.Michael D ConoverEmilio FerraraFilippo MenczerAlessandro FlamminiPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 5, p e64679 (2013)
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Michael D Conover
Emilio Ferrara
Filippo Menczer
Alessandro Flammini
The digital evolution of occupy wall street.
description We examine the temporal evolution of digital communication activity relating to the American anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street. Using a high-volume sample from the microblogging site Twitter, we investigate changes in Occupy participant engagement, interests, and social connectivity over a fifteen month period starting three months prior to the movement's first protest action. The results of this analysis indicate that, on Twitter, the Occupy movement tended to elicit participation from a set of highly interconnected users with pre-existing interests in domestic politics and foreign social movements. These users, while highly vocal in the months immediately following the birth of the movement, appear to have lost interest in Occupy related communication over the remainder of the study period.
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