The Not-So-Silent "Majority": an Automated Content Analysis of Anti-Government Online Communities

The United States is facing an ongoing threat of political violence due to widespread anti-government sentiment that has proliferated across social media platforms. Most saliently, these violent sentiments manifested in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol during the certification of the 20...

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Main Author: Leap, Bethany (Author)
Contributors: Becker, Michael H.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Perspectives on terrorism
Year: 2023, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 103-122
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Social Media
Political Violence
Content Analysis
text analysis
computational social science

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