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…
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…
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…
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…
Uttar Pradesh Elections and Twitter: The Cast of Characters
Uttar Pradesh Elections and Twitter: An Introduction to the Cast of Characters Jivitesh Jain*, Asmit Singh*, Lalitha Kameswari, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Joyojeet Pal The Uttar Pradesh elections are being fought on social media just as much as they are in the…
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…
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,…
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: http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/an-archive-of-covid-19-related-fake-news-in-india/) Following up on a preliminary survey of…
Indian journalists’ influence on Twitter
(suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian journalists’ influence on Twitter http://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…
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…