The literature on the October 2018 caravan from Central America to US has offered different interpretations of phenomenon. Some studies look at it as a strategy for mobility, others an exodus, and collective action. I synthesise these perspectives advance conceptualisation account its main features. To do so, perform case study based review secondary qualitative analysis. Drawing concept Social...

This study aims to reveal how hyperreality is reflected in using the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on social media. The death of an African-American, George Floyd, that involved white police, has sparked outrage and demonstrations many U.S. states. Issues pertaining racism relation event, people protested demanding justice. demand for justice then went into a wave massive global protests both offli...

The history of the Animal Protection Movement is discussed as a case of social movement transformation. Transformation here refers to significant shifts in the goals, strategies, tactics, and membership of the movement and that I suggest reflect the shifting institutional bases of the movement. What emerges as a reform movement of aging elite evangelicals in the earlyto midNineteenth Century En...

Data about the movement of people and objects is a rich source for visual analysis. However, understanding the data and inferring user behavior from it is often difficult due to missing context information. The goal of our research is to augment movement data by information derived from social media. In this paper, we present a visual concept that extends movement trajectories with terms extrac...

Our research examines how social movement organizations strategically frame their commercial activities. We present findings from a seven-year case study of a Sicilian antiracket social movement organization that attempts to eradicate the practice of extortion payments to the Mafia by providing local tourism services. We bridge strategic and interactional theories of frame development to show t...

Abstract Political and social scientists have been relying extensively on keywords such as hashtags to mine movement data from media sites, particularly Twitter. Yet, prior work demonstrates that unrepresentative keyword sets can lead flawed research conclusions. Numerous expansion methods proposed increase the comprehensiveness of keywords, but systematic evaluations these lacking. Our paper f...