Letting Off Steam by Echo and Expression? Online Platform Sentiment and Protest De-Radicalization

• In Event: Investigating Solutions to Global Challenges

Brief Overview

How does online sentiment affect protesters' attitudes and behavior? This paper examines this question through an original dataset and fixed-effect models and draws implications to the online and offline interactions during the conflict processes.

Authors

• Edmund Cheng, City University of Hong Kong

• Kin-Man Wan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong