Category: 2020
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Indian Twitter and its anti-nationals
Cite: Sharma, A. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian Twitter and its anti-nationals. Available online at https://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 which the notion of being antinational has been attached to various forms of dissent [1] [2] [3], but also…
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Twitter in Bihar Politics
Cite: Negi, H. and Pal, J. (2020) Twitter in Bihar Politics. Available online at https://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 than when they tweet in English. The size of the colored bubbles in the scatter…
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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, and offer links to some of the data. First, we have a Miro board which…
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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: https://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 crisis in India. The goal of this work was to understand the outreach of journalists…
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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: https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/an-archive-of-covid-19-related-fake-news-in-india/) Following up on a preliminary survey of debunked COVID-19 related messages online, we sought to understand how the kinds of misinformation have…
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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. We visualized a few key issues that are useful for hypothesis generation. Leader Effect First,…
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Content patterns in COVID-19 related digital misinformation in India
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested Citation: Akbar, S., Pal, J. (2020) Content patterns in COVID-19 related digital misinformation in India. Microsoft Research India. Available online at: https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/an-archive-of-covid-19-related-fake-news-in-india/) We conducted a preliminary survey of debunked COVID-19 related messages online, to create a taxonomy of misinformation. The goal of this work is to understand the language – including topic and metaphor…
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Indian journalists’ influence on Twitter
(suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian journalists’ influence on Twitter https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/indian-journalists-influence-on-twitter/) Overview The goal of this work has been to map the networks of influence on Indian social media. We took the top 110 journalists based on the number of other journalists who follow them from our sample of 1899 journalists…
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Indian politicians and the journalists they prefer
Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal (suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian politicians and the journalists they prefer https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/indian-politicians-and-the-journalists-they-prefer/) We plotted Indian politicians based on the number of times they retweeted a member of the press. The goal of this was to understand politicians’ engagement with the press, and their use of various news…