Category: 2021

Lalitha Kameswari, Joyojeet Pal   Abstract: We examined the activity on Twitter around the Aryan Khan case in October 2021, and found that the most retweeted messages were negative, often hateful messages aimed at the actor Shah Rukh Khan or his son, however that the hashtags more used were supportive of the star. We find…

Asmit Kumar Singh, Jivitesh Jain, Shradha Sehgal, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Joyojeet Pal    We examined the use of social media by politicians on Koo to understand the spread of political preference and engagement for the social media channel that has sought to challenge Twitter online. We find that the broad trend is not partisan, but almost…

Shehla Shora, Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal Cite: Shora, S., Mishra, D., Pal, J. (2021) Measuring the polarity of Indian journalists under surveillance in the 2021 Pegasus Issue.  Link: https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/pegasus/   We looked at the Twitter profiles of Indian journalists and activists whose phone numbers have been found in the leaked database that is believed to be a…

Joyojeet Pal, Rynaa Grover (Cite Grover, Rynaa, Pal, Joyojeet. 2021. #CongressToolkit on Twitter, an examination  Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/congresstoolkit)     We examined the engagement with #CongressToolkit for 5 days between May 18 – May 22 by pulling the tweets of politicians and influencers that used the hashtag. The resultant dataset included 1609 unique tweets, cumulatively retweeted…

Zainab Akbar and Joyojeet Pal   (Cite Akbar, Zainab, Pal, Joyojeet. 2021. Misinformation in India during the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/covidsecondwave)   To understand the impact of misinformation on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, we examined stories circulated online between March 1 and May 15, 2021 that have been debunked…

Rynaa Grover, Joyojeet Pal (Cite Grover, Rynaa, Pal, Joyojeet. 2021. Does Twitter Impact Electoral Outcomes of Candidates: Evidence from West Bengal 2021 Assembly Elections Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/twitterwb)     The answer to precisely that question is straightforward. No. But does Twitter matter for campaigns? Very likely, and there are a number of things that suggest that…

Arshia Arya, Gazal Shekhawat, Joyojeet Pal (Cite Arya, Arshia, Shekhawat, Gazal, Pal, Joyojeet. 2021. Twitter Influencing During the Second Wave Covid Crisis in India Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/twittercovid2) We analysed the changes in following of Twitter accounts originating in India, to examine the patterns that help understand the role of influencers during this period. Here is a…

Rynaa Grover and Joyojeet Pal (Cite Grover, Rynaa, Pal, Joyojeet. 2021. What Drives Twitter Following of Indian Politicians? Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/westbengal) Social Media Activity We plotted the social media activity for the key parties of West Bengal in the run up to the 2021 assembly elections. For this, we measured the activity of politicians who hold…

Arshia Arya and Joyojeet Pal   (Cite A Arya, J Pal. 2021. What Drives Twitter Following of Indian Politicians? Online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/TwitterFollowingPoliticians) We traced the social media following of politicians in India between December 2020 and March 2021, the key phase of the farmer protests in India as well as the run up to several assembly…