Category: Research
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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 the Uttar Pradesh elections of 2022, starting January 1, 2022 and up until March 1,…
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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…
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Rihanna versus Bollywood: Twitter Influencers and the Indian Farmers’ protest
Dibyendu Mishra, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Arshia Arya, Saloni Dash, Rynaa Grover, Joyojeet Pal D Mishra, SZ Akbar, A Arya, S Dash, R Grover, J Pal. 2021. Rihanna versus Bollywood: Twitter Influencers and the Indian Farmers’ Protest. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04031, 2021. Available online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/RihannaVsBollywood On February 2, 2021, American musician Rihanna posted a tweet, asking “why…
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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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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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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…
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Politician engagement with media, and its impact on news propagation
Dibyendu Mishra and Joyojeet Pal (suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Politician engagement with media, and its impact on news propagation. https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/polarity-of-indian-news-sources-among-politicians/ ) In this piece we examine the impact of politicians’ engagement with news stories from specific news sources using retweets as a metric for news propagation. We plotted all the retweets…