News and Geolocated Social Media Accurately Measure Protest Size

• In Event: Online and old school Influences

Brief Overview

News and geolocated social media data generate accurate estimates of the size of protests. This result is substantiated using cell phone location data from ten million individuals during the 2017 United States Women’s March protests.

Authors

• Anton Sobolev, Yale University

• Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld, UCLA

• Keith Chen, UCLA

• Jungseock Joo, UCLA