Tag: Twitter
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Indian Journalists on Twitter and their Politician Footprint
Soham De, Joyojeet Pal (to cite: De, Soham, and Pal, Joyojeet (2022) Indian Journalists on Twitter and their Politician Footprint. Accessed online at https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/journalists) Recent discussions around large corporations maintaining watchlists of journalists have added new questions around how the positions of journalists on issues can be understood vis-a-vis institutions they report on. In India,…
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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…
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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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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…