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2277 - Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements
Sun, August 12, 10:30am to 12:10pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin Hall 13Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
Description
Sociologists of social movements face important analytic choices as they consider the place of protest events in broader patterns of organization and communication, and in the context of increasingly available techniques for analyzing digital data. This section features research that implements novel approaches to studying social movements with empirical findings, as well as research that considers both the possibilities and potential pitfalls of such techniques.
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Session Organizers
Misty Dawn Ring-Ramirez, University of Arizona
John Krinsky, City University of New York-City College
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Individual Presentations
A Method of Movement Building Analysis for Explaining Heightened Contention, as Applied to the Wisconsin Uprising - Ben Manski, University of California-Santa Barbara
The Fifteen Days: Building Contexts and Claims - Eunkyung Song, Rutgers University
Automated Political Event Coding: Lexical and Syntactic Approaches - Weijun Yuan; Joshua Bloom, University of Pittsburgh
Uncovering Authoritarian Rule: Identifying Collective Action with Social Media Data - Han Zhang, Princeton University; Jennifer Pan, Stanford University