Category: Research
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Celebrities kowtowing to political parties
In the last decade, there has been an increasing engagement of celebrities’ social media accounts by politicians in India, either to piggy-back on their existing fan base through casual messaging, or to explicitly use them as part of an electoral or propaganda campaign. Here are a few papers we have published on this: Dibyendu Mishra,…
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Social Media Trolling of Chief Justice Chandrachud: Network Drivers and Narratives
Sheyril Agarwal, Joyojeet Pal To cite (Agarwal, S., Pal, J. (2023) Social Media Trolling of Chief Justice Chandrachud: Network Drivers and Narratives. Available online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/chandrachud) Social media has seen a continued attack on Justice DY Chandrachud, and on the judiciary more broadly. Chief Justices are routinely attacked on social media. In the last five…
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Coordinated Targeting of Creative Work on Social Media in India: The Politics of #BoycottPathaan
Sheyril Agarwal and Joyojeet Pal to cite (Agarwal, S., and Pal, J. (2023) Coordinated Targeting of Creative Work on Social Media in India: The Politics of #BoycottPathaan. Online at:https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/pathaan) A week into Pathaan’s successful OTT release, which followed its blockbuster performance at the box office, it would appear that attempts to #BoycottPathaan failed to have…
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US State Department Archival Documents on Gujarat Riots
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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 they build a media footprint. A recent study led by Sheyril Agarwal tracked the #BoycottBollywood…
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#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 ongoing campaign to get people to boycott films coming out of the mainstream Hindi cinema…
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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 to a small group of dedicated Sushant Rajput fans. Their networks, language and articulation of…
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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 immediately following the incident to see how the two main political parties reacted to the…
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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 important in politics for several reasons. It is critical for politicians to appear supportive of…