Soham De, Joyojeet Pal (to cite: De, Soham, and Pal, Joyojeet (2022) Indian Journalists on Twitter and their Politician Footprint. Accessed online at http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/journalists) Recent discussions around large corporations maintaining watchlists of journalists have added new questions around how the…
Can ‘Boycott Bollywood’ Actually Bring Down Films
Joyojeet Pal (published at The Times of India, October 7, 2022: (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/can-boycott-bollywood-actually-bring-down-films/articleshow/94700163.cms) Much has been written about the drivers and broader social discourse around Boycott Bollywood. Little, however, is discussed about exactly how these trends appear, and how, and why…
#BoycottBollywood: A Study of Twitter Networks Calling for Cancelling the Hindi Film Industry
Sheyril Agarwal, Joyojeet Pal (to cite: Agarwal, S.and Pal, J. (2022) BoycottBollywood: A Study of Twitter Networks Calling for Cancelling the Hindi Film Industry. Available Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/boycottbollywood The messaging asking for netizens to boycott Brahmastra is part of an…
The Structure and Style of a Dogma Community: Influencer profiteering, conspiracy theories, and organized engagement in the Sushant Singh Rajput discussion
Anirban Sen and Joyojeet Pal The Structure and Style of a Dogma Community: Influencer profiteering, conspiracy theories, and organized engagement in the Sushant Singh Rajput discussion Anirban Sen and Joyojeet Pal The barrage of anti-Bollywood Twitter trending is closely tied…
The Post-Uvalde Twitter Discourse in the US
Sheyril Agarwal, Aanchal Sagwal, Joyojeet Pal (to cite: Agrawal, S., Sagwal, A., Pal, J. (2022) The Post-Uvalde Twitter Discourse in the US, https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/uvalde) We examined what politicians across the US tweeted about following the Uvalde school shooting in the days…
The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians on Twitter
Soham De, Agrima Seth, Joyojeet Pal The military is one of the institutions that is held in extremely high esteem in modern nation-states around the world. While democratic states emphasize the separation of military and civilian leadership, the military is…
Midpoint Melodrama: UP Political Twitter Halfway through Polling Phases
Asmit Singh, Lalitha Kameswari, Jivitesh Jain, Tushar Mohan, Aravind Narayanan, Dipanwita Guhathakurta, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Joyojeet Pal We examined the use of Twitter by 10426 politicians from Uttar Pradesh, across all levels of seniority, midway into the phases of polling in…
Drawing Lines: The #HijabBan discourse on Twitter
Soham De, Anmol Panda, Joyojeet Pal We examined the social media messaging related to the Hijab Ban, starting Jan 31, 2021, and ending on Feb 20, 2022. The goal of this work was to examine both the frequency and importance…
What #hashtag wars tell us about the organization of Uttar Pradesh IT cells, and how parties mark their allies and enemies
Asmit Singh*, Jivitesh Jain*, Lalitha Kameswari*, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Joyojeet Pal Pitched battles on Twitter are increasingly common among the key players in the Uttar Pradesh elections, since the praises, innuendo, and insults that take shape and virality on Twitter often…
Indian Journalists’ Twitter Report Card: Language, Polarization, and Provocative Speech in the Popularity of Journalists’ Feed
Soham De, Joyojeet Pal Following Rahul Gandhi’s claim that Twitter had been artificially suppressing his following online, journalist Barkha Dutt also suggested that her own following had plateaued, and that Twitter may have artificially frozen her online following, we examined…