Index

Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change

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Publication date: 12 July 2023

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(2023), "Index", Maher, T.V. and Schoon, E.W. (Ed.) Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Vol. 47), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 269-277. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20230000047012

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INDEX

Abstracting
, 77

Academic presses
, 162

Academic publishes
, 162

Activist archives
, 123

African American Vernacular English (AAVE)
, 103–104

Agence France-Presse (AFP)
, 251–253

Algorithmic black boxes
, 77–78

Alliance. See Coalitions

American Association of University Women
, 240

American Liberty League
, 191

American Political Science Association (APSA)
, 161

American Schools of Oriental Research Syrian Heritage Initiative (ASOR-CHI)
, 84

American Sociological Association (ASA)
, 161–162

Analytical data
, 78–79

Analytical metadata
, 80–81

Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (2006)
, 155

Animal rights
, 188

Anti-abortion movements
, 188

Anti-alcohol movements
, 194–195

Anti-extradition Fact Check
, 248

Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB)
, 8, 246

event catalog
, 250–251

protests in Hong Kong (2019)
, 241, 246–247

Anti-Mask Law
, 247

Antinuclear groups
, 240

Apple Daily Hong Kong
, 251–253

Application programming interfaces (APIs)
, 107–108

Archival data
, 95

Archival research and epistemology
, 94–96

Archives
, 94–95

voices in
, 134–138

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED)
, 221

Art festivals
, 17

Artificial intelligence (AI)
, 104

Automated event coding
, 249–250

Automated event databases
, 22–23

Belmont Principle of Respect for Persons, The
, 155

Belmont principles
, 6, 146–147

Belmont Report, The
, 146

Biases of news sources, understanding potential limitations and
, 40–42

Big data projects
, 50

Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)
, 149

Black feminist scholars
, 171

Black rights movement
, 205–206

Boolean operators
, 43

Broken windows theory
, 218

Channel News Asia (CNA)
, 251–253

Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
, 255

Civil Human Rights Front
, 246–247

Clustering analysis
, 26

Co-appearance
, 254

Co-organizers
, 254

Coalitional relationships
, 255

Coalitions
, 240

building coalition as strategy
, 241–242

data and methods
, 247–255

formation and collapse of coalitions in response to threats
, 258–260

formation and dissolution in response to threats
, 255–260

measuring event coalition
, 254–255

threats and
, 242–245

Coercive repression
, 101–102

Cognitive process
, 243

Collection, innovations in
, 4–5

Collective action events
, 19–20

Communal projects
, 160

Communist movements
, 188

Community events
, 128

Community mobilization
, 26, 29

Computational methods
, 32–33

Computational syntactic methods
, 241

Computational text analysis

contentious events and social movement research
, 16–20

data
, 21–22

environmental movement
, 20–21

issues
, 24–25, 28–29

methods
, 22–26

newspapers as data
, 18–19

organizational type
, 25–26, 29

and potential for reducing bias in collecting data on social movements
, 19–20

protests and events
, 22–23, 26–27

results
, 26–29

tactics
, 24, 27–28

Computer-automated big data projects
, 50

Confidence intervals
, 222–225

Congressional investigations
, 196, 198

Conservative groups
, 191

Constituent data
, 78–79

Constituent metadata
, 79–80

Contentious events
, 14, 16, 19–20

Contentious politics
, 2

Count models
, 220–221

fit appropriate count models and get predicted counts for risk factor
, 222

Counter movements
, 102

Coverage
, 195–197

Criminological theory
, 218

Crisp-set QCA
, 196–197

Crowd Counting Consortium and Count Love, The
, 20

Cultural contexts
, 151–152

“Cultural Violence and Civilian Deaths” project
, 73

Cumulative diffusion
, 216

Data

data-driven clustering of topics
, 25

data-mining platforms
, 39

and modeling strategies
, 225–226

newspapers as
, 18–19

Data collection
, 107–109

bias
, 41

strategies
, 59–61

Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
, 73

Data quality
, 74–75

provenance and data quality in satellite images
, 73–76

Data sources
, 3

aggregate as sources as possible
, 50–52

hegemon
, 52–53

selection for world-historical analysis
, 49–53

Databases
, 39–40

Deep-learning algorithms
, 250

Delta method
, 220–221, 223

Description bias
, 41–42, 48

Deviant combinations and advantages of wide comparisons
, 199–207

Diffusion
, 217

process
, 219

studies
, 217–218

Digital data sources
, 5

Digitized historical newspaper
, 39–40

Digitized news sources
, 65

use of
, 42–43

Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums in Syria (DGAM in Syria)
, 81–82

Disruptiveness
, 195

Dissidents
, 244

Domestic news, dealing with
, 54–56

Dove satellites
, 75–76

Dramatic ramifications
, 137–138

Dummy variable format
, 57

Dynamics of Collective Action (DoCA)
, 217

articles
, 23

data
, 221, 226

dataset
, 226–227

project
, 206

Earth First! (organization)
, 20–21

EBSCO Regional Business News database
, 21

Emotional “twinges”
, 136–137

Emotional danger
, 149

Emotional exploration
, 137

Emotional risk
, 152–153

Emotions and interactions
, 134–138

Empirical analysis
, 241

Enacted policy
, 195–196

Encyclopedia of Associations
, 21

Enforced policy
, 195–196

Environmental movement
, 20–21, 200

Environmental movement organizations (EMOs)
, 15, 21

Environmental sciences
, 71

Ethical standards for student participation in protest research

Belmont principles
, 146–147

ethics in practice
, 147–158

Ethics
, 71

in practice
, 147–158

Ethnographic research
, 179

Event coalition
, 256–257

measuring
, 254–255

Event coding
, 241

Event diffusion momentum (EDM)
, 7, 216, 220, 233

calculate EDM and confidence intervals
, 222–225

count number of pre/post-event protests
, 222

diffusion studies
, 217–218

explanations of protest diffusion
, 218–219

fit appropriate count models and get predicted counts for each risk factor
, 222

identifying risk factors of protest diffusion
, 226–230

macro-micro analysis of effects of governors’ party affiliations and policing
, 232–233

proposed method for estimating EDM
, 220–225

research design
, 225–226

select event-based data
, 221

set temporal and spatial ranges of interest
, 221–222

toward inter-event approach
, 219–220

US presidents’ and governors’ party affiliations and diffusion
, 230–231

Event history analysis (EHA)
, 219

Event-based data, select
, 221

Events, protests and
, 22–23

Expansionary forms of nationalism
, 39

Facebook
, 98

Faculty research projects
, 144

False negatives, strategies to reduce
, 45–46

Feminist archivists
, 125

Feminist ethnography

boundaries and silences
, 127–134

methods
, 6

origin of social movement archives
, 122–127

voices in archives
, 134–138

Feminist organizations
, 126–127

Feminist research
, 122

Field research
, 170

insider-ness and outsider-ness in
, 170–172

Gale
, 52

Gale Cengage Learning
, 21, 39, 43

Gay liberation movement
, 126

Gentle repression
, 244

Geographic information systems (GIS)
, 78–79

Geographic sciences
, 71

Geographical selection bias
, 57

checking for effect of repeated mentions
, 57

dealing with domestic news
, 54–56

minimizing
, 53–57

tracing geographical sensitivities
, 56

Geographical sensitivities, tracing
, 56

Global Data on Events Language and Tone (GDELT)
, 19–20, 22–23, 38–39, 50

Graduate Assistants
, 173

Graduate Student Union Campaign
, 173, 177–178, 180–181

Graduate students engaged in protest research, ethical treatment of
, 147–158

Graduate training
, 144–145

programs
, 147

Green State University (GSU)
, 173

Greenpeace (confrontational EMO)
, 18–21, 200

Ground truthing

process
, 83, 85

techniques
, 71

Guardian/The Observer (G/O)
, 39

High–resolution satellite images
, 69–71

Historical connection
, 240

Historical newspaper
, 43

Historical sources
, 59–61

Hong Kong Protests (2019)
, 228

Indiscriminate repression
, 245

Indiscriminate threats
, 241, 244–245

Inmediahk. net
, 251–253

Innovations
, 216

in collection and processing
, 4–5

epistemology and reflexivity
, 5–7

novel analytics
, 7–8

Insider-ness in field research
, 170–172

Insider–outsider dynamics and identity in qualitative studies of social movements

case studies
, 172–173

graduate student union campaign
, 173

insider-ness and outsider-ness in field research
, 170–172

Latinx Millennial Student organizing
, 172–173

level of participation within movements
, 175–179

questions for future researchers
, 175, 179, 181

Ragon
, 174–175

recognizing and negotiating interplay of researcher and participant identities
, 174–175

Reyes
, 174–175

securing research approval within institutional settings
, 179–181

Instagram
, 98–99, 111

Instant archives
, 94, 96, 98

archival research and epistemology
, 94–96

data and data collection
, 105–111

data collection
, 107–109

instant archive
, 96–98

limitations of single archives and importance of triangulation and empirical approaches
, 110–111

methodological decisions
, 105–106

pace or life cycle of platform/archive
, 106

platform design and evolution
, 98–101

repression in
, 101–103

research question about individuals, communities, organizations, or discourse
, 105–106

sampling and sample size
, 109–110

understanding data
, 106–107

user innovations
, 103–104

Institution-based research on social movements
, 171–172

Institutional change
, 26, 29

Institutional context
, 240

Institutional identity
, 173–175

Institutional mediation model of social movement news coverage
, 189–193

Institutional repression
, 244

Institutional Review Board (IRB)
, 145, 179, 181

Institutional settings, securing research approval within
, 179–181

Institutions
, 216

“Insurgent Artifacts” project
, 72–73, 83–84

Insurgent groups
, 72, 245

Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS)
, 38–39

Inter-event approach
, 7, 219–220

Inter-organizational coalitions
, 240

“Inter-protest” dynamics
, 219–220

Interactions, emotions and
, 134–138

International Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS)
, 19–20, 22–23

Irredentism
, 39

Journals
, 162

Justice
, 157–158

Karatasli’s analysis
, 63–64

Keyword strings
, 43, 45

working with
, 43–49

Land Remote Sensing Policy Act (1992) (LRSPA)
, 75

Latinx Millennial Student
, 172–173, 176–177, 180

Latinx student organizations
, 172–173

League of Women Voters
, 240

Legal risks
, 153–155

Lesbian feminists
, 139

LexisNexis (Online platforms)
, 39, 43, 52

Liberal Arts College (LAC)
, 172–173

Log link function
, 223–225

Logical remainders
, 203–204

Looters’ pits
, 78, 81

Looting
, 72

LRT–Vuong model selection
, 226

Machine algorithms
, 73

Machine learning
, 19–20, 249

machine learning-based big data projects
, 50

machine-learning-based event coding projects
, 250

techniques
, 15

Machine-learning Protest Event Data System (MPEDS)
, 22–23

Macro-micro analysis of effects of governors’ party affiliations and policing
, 232–233

results
, 232–233

variables
, 232

Manual data collection
, 107–108

Marginalized communities
, 124–125, 129–130, 139

Marginalized social movement communities
, 122–123

Metadata
, 78–79

incorporating metadata and corroborating satellite images
, 81–86

Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival
, 126

Microsatellites
, 75–76

Ming Po
, 251–253

Mobilization processes
, 220

Music
, 17

festivals
, 126

National chauvinism
, 39

National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, The
, 146

National independence wars
, 63

National newspapers
, 18–19

National Organization for Women (NOW)
, 126–127, 240

National Research Act (1974)
, 146

National Science Foundation’s funds for emergent research
, 161–162

National US social movement organizations
, 208

National Women’s Music Festival
, 126

Nationalism
, 38

datasets of
, 38

scholars of
, 38–39

Nationalist mobilization
, 38

Nationalist movements
, 39

Natural language processing technologies (NLP technologies)
, 15, 19–20, 38–39, 47

New Left movements
, 16

New York Times (NYT)
, 15, 39

News coverage
, 188

News media
, 190, 209–210

Newspaper

boundaries of true and false positives
, 47–49

changing reporting styles of newspapers
, 46–47

data
, 14–15, 18–19

using newspaper archives for collecting macro-historical data
, 40–43

understanding potential limitations and biases of news sources
, 40–42

use of digitized news sources
, 42–43

Nexis Uni newspaper database
, 21–23

North Eastern Women’s Music Retreat (NEWMR)
, 136–137

planning documents
, 137–138

Novel analytics
, 7–8

Objectivity in satellite images, algorithms and illusion of
, 76–78

Olson method
, 77

Online ethnographies
, 110

Online platforms
, 43

Operationalization
, 106–107

Organizational strength
, 195

Organizational structure
, 240

Organizational type
, 25–26

Organizing Together (OT)
, 181

Outsider-ness in field research
, 170–172

Palestinian nationalism
, 41

Participant identities, recognizing and negotiating interplay of
, 174–175

Participation within movements, determining level of
, 175–179

Partisan political context
, 195–196

PATRIOT Act (2001)
, 155

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
, 20–21

Periodization
, 257–258

Personal transformation
, 26

Planet (private commercial satellite company)
, 75–76

Platform design and evolution
, 98–101

Platform/archive, pace or life cycle of
, 106

Policing
, 232–233

Political mediation models
, 192

Political opportunity theory
, 230

Political Organization in the News (PONs)
, 189

Political right
, 195

Political sociology
, 207–208

Post-event protests, count number of
, 222

Pre/post-event protests, count number of
, 222

Pro-democracy activists
, 243

Processing, innovations in
, 4–5

Professional associations
, 161–162

Professional organizations
, 160–162

sections of
, 162

Professional risks
, 153

ProQuest (Online platforms)
, 39, 43, 52

Protest diffusion
, 215–216

explanations of
, 218–219

forms of action
, 227

identifying risk factors of
, 226–230

method
, 228

results
, 228–230

size of protest
, 227

social movement organizations
, 227–228

studies
, 219

variables and operationalization
, 227–228

violence
, 228

Protest research

beneficence
, 148–155

benefits
, 148–149

emotional risk
, 152–153

ethical treatment of graduate students engaged in
, 147–158

individual researchers
, 158

journals and academic presses
, 162

justice
, 157–158

legal risks
, 153–155

physical risks
, 150–152

practice
, 158–163

professional organizations
, 160–162

professional risks
, 153

respect for persons
, 155–157

risks
, 149–150

sections of professional organizations
, 162

throughout profession
, 162–163

Protests
, 16, 19–20

for Black Lives
, 144

events
, 18, 22–23, 26–27, 31, 255

Provenance
, 74

concept of
, 74

Public education programs
, 14

Public health and social science perspectives
, 217–218

QAnon
, 110–111

Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)
, 7, 189, 193–194

data, methods, and measures
, 193–196

four hypotheses and QCA results
, 196–199

institutional mediation model of social movement news coverage
, 189–193

truth tables, Venn diagrams, deviant combinations, and advantages of wide comparisons
, 199–207

Qualitative methods course
, 177–178

Reagan conservative regime
, 200–202

Recognition
, 2–3

Regional Public University (RPU)
, 172–173, 176–177

Repression
, 243–244

in instant archive
, 101–103

Republican conservative regime
, 200–202

Research
, 145

participants
, 146

process
, 122, 148

securing research approval within institutional settings
, 179–181

Research design
, 225–226

DoCA data
, 226

zero-inflated poisson models
, 226

Research in Social Movements, Conflict & Change (RSMCC)
, 1

Research University (RU)
, 172–173, 176

Researcher, recognizing and negotiating interplay of
, 174–175

Researcher bias
, 45–47

Resolution
, 75

Resource mobilization theory
, 188, 233–234

Resources
, 240

Risk assessment
, 159

Rule-based programming
, 249

Rule-based text analysis
, 241

Russian military
, 69–70

Safety
, 144

Satellite imagery
, 3

Satellite images
, 70, 86

algorithms and illusion of objectivity in
, 76–78

case studies and methods
, 71–73

incorporating metadata and corroborating satellite images
, 81–86

provenance and data quality in satellite images
, 73–76

responsible practices for satellite research
, 86–88

satellite metadata
, 78–81

Satellite sensors
, 77

Scale shift
, 219–220

Science and technology studies (STS)
, 73

Search strategy of SSNM dataset
, 46

Selection bias
, 40–41

Selective repression
, 245

Selective threats
, 241, 244–245

Severe repression
, 244

Shared identity
, 240, 242

Shared ideology
, 242

Smith College library website, The
, 123–124

Social, Political, and Economic Event Database (SPEED)
, 19–20

Social identities
, 169–171, 174

Social media
, 3, 93–94, 111–112, 241

companies
, 103

data
, 94, 108–110

mobilization
, 93–94

platforms
, 98, 100, 102

Social movement organizations (SMOs)
, 18–19, 215–216, 227–228

Social movements
, 14, 17, 31, 38, 41–42, 144–145, 158, 161–162, 171–172, 188, 227, 240

computational text analysis and potential for reducing bias in collecting data on
, 19–20

institutional mediation model of social movement news coverage
, 189–193

origin of social movement archives
, 122–127

research
, 16–20

researchers
, 94, 105, 107, 153, 219, 230

scholars
, 14–18, 144

South China Morning Post
, 251–253

SPEED
, 22–23

Standpoint concept
, 171

State Actions
, 255

State repression
, 243–244

State-induced threats
, 240

State-led nationalism
, 39

State-seeking nationalism
, 39

State-Seeking Nationalist Movements (SSNM)
, 4, 61–62

controlling for increasing number of pages over time
, 57–58

data source selection for world-historical analysis
, 49–53

dataset I
, 43

dataset II
, 39

minimizing geographical selection bias
, 53–57

using newspaper archives for collecting macro-historical data
, 40–43

reliability of SSNM dataset I
, 58–64

strategies to reduce false negatives
, 45–46

working with keyword strings
, 43–49

State-seeking nationalist movements
, 39

Strategies
, 20

Structural topic modeling (STM)
, 24–25

Supervised machine-learning methods
, 249–250

Syntactic rule-based methods
, 8

Syrian civil war
, 86–87

Tactics
, 20, 24, 27–28

Telegram
, 8, 241

comparing events extracted from Telegram and Newspaper sources
, 251–253

Telegram Broadcasting Posts
, 247–249

Threats
, 242–245

Threshold effect
, 40–41, 48–49

TikTok
, 98–99, 111

Topic models
, 24–25

Toronto G20 Summit Protests (2010)
, 228

Trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs)
, 132–133

Triangulation and empirical approaches, limitations of single archives and importance of
, 110–111

Truth tables and advantages of wide comparisons
, 199–207

Twitter
, 98

United Kingdom (UK)
, 39

UK-based newspapers
, 56

United States (US)
, 39

method
, 230–231

party affiliation
, 230

presidents’ and governors’ party affiliations and diffusion
, 230–231

results
, 231

US social movements
, 193–194, 206

US-based newspapers
, 56

variables
, 230

Unmanned Aero Systems (UAS)
, 74

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)
, 73

UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset
, 221

Venn diagrams and advantages of wide comparisons
, 199–207

Veterans
, 194–195

Violence
, 228

Web scraping
, 107–108

Web-crawling techniques
, 20

Wen Wei Po
, 251–253

White supremacists
, 188, 191

Women’s Music Archives
, 6, 124–125, 135

case of
, 125

World Labor Group database (WLG database)
, 52

World Wildlife Fund (nonconfrontational EMO)
, 18–19

YouTube
, 111

Yusin Constitution
, 243

Zero-Inflated Poisson Models (ZIP models)
, 226