Arshia Arya, Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal We conducted a preliminary study of influence networks on Koo, and their relationship to activity on Twitter. Here are a few findings. First, we find that the design of the Koo app…
Rihanna versus Bollywood: Twitter Influencers and the Indian Farmers’ protest
Dibyendu Mishra, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Arshia Arya, Saloni Dash, Rynaa Grover, Joyojeet Pal D Mishra, SZ Akbar, A Arya, S Dash, R Grover, J Pal. 2021. Rihanna versus Bollywood: Twitter Influencers and the Indian Farmers’ Protest. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04031, 2021. Available…
Indian Twitter and its anti-nationals
Cite: Sharma, A. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian Twitter and its anti-nationals. Available online at http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/antinationals Recent references to the farmer protests as “anti-national”, including by major political actors, raises questions of how the term has been used. Much recent work has considered ways in…
Twitter in Bihar Politics
Cite: Negi, H. and Pal, J. (2020) Twitter in Bihar Politics. Available online at http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/twitterbihar We summarize the key trends with Twitter use among politicians in Bihar. Language We see that for all the parties, tweeting in Hindi gets significantly more retweets…
Anatomy of a Rumour: Social media and the suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput
work by Syeda Zainab Akbar, Ankur Sharma, Himani Negi, Anmol Panda, and Joyojeet Pal We studied the social media content on Sushant Singh Rajput between June 14 and September 12, 2020. On this page, we summarize the key results,…
Indian Journalists’ reach on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis
Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested Citation: Mishra, D., Pal, J. (2020) Indian Journalists’ reach on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis. Available online at: http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/indian-journalists-reach-on-twitter-during-the-covid-19-crisis/) We mapped the reach of Indian journalists in the months leading up to, and following the COVID-19…
List of debunked messages
# Domain Headline Post URL Category 1 indiatoday.in Fact Check: Bloated casualty figures linked to coronavirus leave netizens in panic https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/fact-check-bloated-casualty-figures-linked-to-coronavirus-leave-netizens-in-panic-1643257-2020-02-04 Doctored Statistics 2 altnews.in Coronavirus: Image showing sulphur dioxide forecasts falsely linked with mass cremation in Wuhan https://www.altnews.in/coronavirus-image-showing-sulphur-dioxide-forecasts-falsely-linked-with-mass-cremation-in-wuhan/ Nature…
Temporal Patterns in COVID-19 misinformation in India
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Divyanshu Kukreti, Somya Sagarika, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested Citation: Akbar, S., Kukreti, D., Sagarika, S., Pal, J. (2020) Temporal patterns in COVID-19 related digital misinformation in India. Available online at: http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/an-archive-of-covid-19-related-fake-news-in-india/) Following up on a preliminary survey of…
Freedom of press and social media partisanship in India
Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal (cite: Mishra, D., Pal, J (2020) “Freedom of press and social media partisanship in India: A visualization of tweets around the 2020 FIR against The Wire” http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/freedom-of-press-and-social-media-partisanship-in-india/) Following the statement by 3500 public figures including jurists and…
Political partisanship and COVID response in India
Dibyendu Mishra, Anmol Panda, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested citation: Mishra, D., Panda, A., and Pal, J. (2020) Political partisanship and COVID response in India https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/political-partisanship-and-covid-response-in-india/) We analyzed the timing, frequency, and content of Indian politicians’ tweeting on COVID related issues.…