Mobilizing the Masses: Measuring Resource Mobilization on Twitter

How can we measure the resource mobilization (RM) efforts of social movements on Twitter? In this article, create first ever movements’ RM a media platform. To aim, four-conditional lexicon that parse through tweets and identify those concerned with RM. We also simple score be plotted in time series format to track real time. use our tools millions from United States streamed between November 28, 2018, February 11, 2019, demonstrate how help us estimate saliency persistency efforts. find captures by successfully cross checking variation against protest events during same frame. Finally, illustrate descriptive qualitative utility for understanding running conventional topic modeling algorithms were used compute point at specific avenues theory building testing.