Category: 2022
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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 find new lives on other social media such as WhatsApp, but also on mainstream television…
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Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa
Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa April 7-8, 2022, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor In Person at Room 2435, North Quad, 105 State Street, Ann Arbor, and available Online through Registration Sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and…
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Did Twitter Consciously Undermine an Opposition Leader in India? An Analysis of the Rahul Gandhi Following Affair
Anmol Panda, Joyojeet Pal A complaint from Rahul Gandhi to Twitter about the stagnation in his Twitter following triggered a conversation about the social media giant’s possible role in undermining political speech. Gandhi’s team alleged that the stagnation, and occasional drop in his followers was driven by demands from the ruling party that the opposition…