When Police Violence Polarizes: Asymmetric Party-Directed Emotion around Black Lives Matter Protests on U.S. Social Media

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Brief Overview

Using Twitter data, the paper models emotions toward each party during Black Lives Matter protests and shows how elite cues, moralization, and hostile misperceptions turn police-violence shocks into asymmetric affective polarization.

Author

• Sylvia Dou, University of Chicago