More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior
- Joseph DiGrazia, K. McKelvey, J. Bollen, F. Rojas
- Political SciencePLoS ONE
- 21 February 2013
There is a statistically significant association between tweets that mention a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives and his or her subsequent electoral performance, and this finding persists even when controlling for incumbency, district partisanship, media coverage of the race, time, and demographic variables such as the district's racial and gender composition.
From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline
- F. Rojas
- Sociology
- 2010
The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential political force, this movement in turn spawned the…
The social media response to Black Lives Matter: how Twitter users interact with Black Lives Matter through hashtag use
- Jelani Ince, F. Rojas, Clayton A. Davis
- Sociology
- 6 July 2017
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the social media presence of Black Lives Matter (BLM). Specifically, we examine how social media users interact with BLM by using hashtags and thus modify the framing…
Power Through Institutional Work: Acquiring Academic Authority in the 1968 Third World Strike
- F. Rojas
- Political Science
- 1 December 2010
Introducing a process model of power and institutional change, I argue that actors may seek power by creating, supporting, or modifying institutions. Lacking unilateral authority to enact new…
Social Movement Tactics, Organizational Change and the Spread of African-American Studies
- F. Rojas
- Political Science
- 1 June 2006
Social movement research suggests that protest is effective because it de-legitimizes existing policies and imposes costs on power holders. I test this hypothesis with data on African-American…
Twitter's Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility
- Shirin Nilizadeh, Anne Groggel, F. Rojas
- SociologyInternational Conference on Web and Social Media
- 31 March 2016
This analysis shows that users perceived as female experience a 'glass ceiling,' similar to the barrier women face in attaining higher positions in companies, among the most visible users where being perceived as male is strongly associated with more visibility.
The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests near Fort Bragg
- M. T. Heaney, F. Rojas
- Sociology
- 21 September 2006
Social movement leaders regularly invoke geographic places—such as cities, parks, and monuments—as symbols in strategic efforts to frame social movement activity. This article examines how place…
Hybrid Activism: Social Movement Mobilization in a Multimovement Environment1
- M. T. Heaney, F. Rojas
- BusinessAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 1 January 2014
It is found that hybridization can augment the ability of social movement organizations to mobilize their supporters in multimovement environments.
The Black Power Movement and American Social Work
- F. Rojas
- Education
- 28 October 2015
speak as if everyone is middle class and ‘‘going away to college’’ is the societal norm (see p. 16). I admit that I kept waiting for the main event to begin, but what I thought was the warm-up was…
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