TY - GEN
T1 - Shahbag movement: The tweeted perspective
AU - Raychoudhury, Vaskar
AU - Saxena, Divya
AU - Chaudhary, Mayank
AU - Mangla, Shivam
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/4/30
Y1 - 2015/4/30
N2 - In recent years, revolutions across the middle-east, mass protests in USA and Spain, and aggregated general discontents in many other countries of the world have lived a cyber life parallel to the streets - mainly in Twitter. Much have been said and believed about Twitter based revolutions. However, there is real dearth of in-depth empirical studies to support those claims. Before the heat of earlier revolutions on Twitter cooled down, a new revolution emerged in the Shahbag Square in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. It started by declaration in social networks, quickly gathered huge momentum, and soon got spread all over the country. In this study, we analyzed about a million tweets to study the nature of the movement, the participants and their activities. The results show that the modern revolutions bring together people from all strata of the society around the epicenter and grow in a completely apolitical manner.
AB - In recent years, revolutions across the middle-east, mass protests in USA and Spain, and aggregated general discontents in many other countries of the world have lived a cyber life parallel to the streets - mainly in Twitter. Much have been said and believed about Twitter based revolutions. However, there is real dearth of in-depth empirical studies to support those claims. Before the heat of earlier revolutions on Twitter cooled down, a new revolution emerged in the Shahbag Square in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. It started by declaration in social networks, quickly gathered huge momentum, and soon got spread all over the country. In this study, we analyzed about a million tweets to study the nature of the movement, the participants and their activities. The results show that the modern revolutions bring together people from all strata of the society around the epicenter and grow in a completely apolitical manner.
KW - hashtags
KW - Shahbag movement
KW - Twitter data
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84930444013&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/COMSNETS.2015.7098732
DO - 10.1109/COMSNETS.2015.7098732
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:84930444013
T3 - 2015 7th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 2015 - Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2015 7th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 2015 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 7th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 2015
Y2 - 6 January 2015 through 10 January 2015
ER -