8  Week 8: Violence and protest

This week we will be studying the relationship between violence, protest, and the emergence of new Internet-enabled technologies and social media platforms. This has again been a headline claim in journalistic and other reports

We will be turning to the scientific literature to examine the evidence and theoretical motivation for these claims.

8.1 Essential reading:

Müller and Schwarz (2020)

Mooijman et al. (2018)

Cao, Lindo, and Zhong (2022)

8.2 Slides

Slides for this week are available here

Cao, Andy, Jason Lindo, and Jiee Zhong. 2022. “Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents? Evidence from Trump’s "Chinese Virus" Tweets.” https://doi.org/10.3386/w30588.

Mooijman, Marlon, Joe Hoover, Ying Lin, Heng Ji, and Morteza Dehghani. 2018. “Moralization in Social Networks and the Emergence of Violence During Protests.” Nature Human Behaviour 2 (6): 389–96. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0353-0.

Müller, Karsten, and Carlo Schwarz. 2020. “Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime.” Journal of the European Economic Association, October. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvaa045.