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Black Lives Matter protests shift public discourse

Published:2022-03-03 Issue:10 Volume:119 Page:
ISSN:0027-8424
Container-title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

Author:

Dunivin Zackary Okun¹²,Yan Harry Yaojun²³^ORCID,Ince Jelani⁴^ORCID,Rojas Fabio¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405

2. Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Luddy School of Informatics, Computer Science, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408

3. The Media School, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405

4. Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

Abstract

SignificanceThis study uses large-scale news media and social media data to show that nationwide Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests occur concurrently with sharp increases in public attention to components of the BLM agenda. We also show that attention to BLM and related concepts is not limited to these brief periods of protest but is sustained after protest has ceased. This suggests that protest events incited a change in public awareness of BLM’s vision of social change and the dissemination of antiracist ideas into popular discourse.

Funder

National Science Foundation

IU | Indiana University Bloomington

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2117320119

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