International Joint Conference on the Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, 2016
Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full range of organ... more Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full range of organizations appearing in the media with movements remains underexamined. To analyze this organizational complexity, we draw upon field theory, relating it to concepts from social network analysis. We hypothesize that interactions with stateembedded actors increase field stability, yet this effect decreases with the field's level of abstraction. We contrast a pair of US movements, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, according to their interactions with stateembedded actors. Through the New York Times's API, we collect and produce article coappearance networks that approximate the population of Times's indexed organizations. We parse fields from these networks using community detection algorithms. Our analyses test stability using triadic closure propensities and average coreness. Our findings show that subgroups affiliated with the Tea Party had greater stability than those of Occupy Wall Street.
Florida. His areas of interest include social movements, deviance, radical activism, and the effe... more Florida. His areas of interest include social movements, deviance, radical activism, and the effects of new communication technologies on political behavior. His dissertation examines the decision making and organization of grassroots anti-authoritarian movements on both the political right and left. His published work has appeared in the Journal ofSocial Structure, the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements.
Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full range of organ... more Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full range of organizations appearing in the media with movements remains underexamined. To analyze this organizational complexity, we draw upon field theory, relating it to concepts from social network analysis. We hypothesize that interactions with stateembedded actors increase field stability, yet this effect decreases with the field's level of abstraction. We contrast a pair of US movements, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, according to their interactions with stateembedded actors. Through the New York Times's API, we collect and produce article coappearance networks that approximate the population of Times's indexed organizations. We parse fields from these networks using community detection algorithms. Our analyses test stability using triadic closure propensities and average coreness. Our findings show that subgroups affiliated with the Tea Party had greater stability than those ...
In this article we review the contributions that social movement and social conversion literature... more In this article we review the contributions that social movement and social conversion literatures have made to the sociological understandings of radicalization. We focus particular attention to the elements present within social movements that may facilitate the development of a radical identity, as well as examining the social process by which activists may convert to a radical identity. For support of our arguments, we draw upon the established literature as well as the ethnographic research and experiences of the two authors. We conclude that radicalization is a process that can be facilitated by the same aspects of social movements that enable the development of collective identities, but that radicalism does not have a single unitary path, but rather a variety of potential outcomes.
In this article we review the contributions that social movement and social conversion literature... more In this article we review the contributions that social movement and social conversion literatures have made to the sociological understandings of radicalization. We focus particular attention to the elements present within social movements that may facilitate the development of a radical identity, as well as examining the social process by which activists may convert to a radical identity. For support of our arguments, we draw upon the established literature as well as the ethnographic research and experiences of the two authors. We conclude that radicalization is a process that can be facilitated by the same aspects of social movements that enable the development of collective identities, but that radicalism does not have a single unitary path, but rather a variety of potential outcomes.
This study examines global patterns of stability and change within six longitudinal samples of En... more This study examines global patterns of stability and change within six longitudinal samples of English-language weblogs (or "blogs") during the 2004 U.S. Presidential election campaign. Using distance-based methods of graph comparison, we explore the evolution of the blog-blog citation networks for each sample during the period. In addition to describing the qualitative dynamics of the blog networks, we relate major campaign events (e.g., party political conventions and debates) to the observed pace of change. As we demonstrate, such events are associated with substantial differences in overall network volatility; moreover, volatility is also shown to have strong seasonal and endogenous components. Our findings suggest that external factors (both regular and episodic) may be important drivers of network dynamics.
International Joint Conference on the Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, 2016
Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full range of organ... more Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full range of organizations appearing in the media with movements remains underexamined. To analyze this organizational complexity, we draw upon field theory, relating it to concepts from social network analysis. We hypothesize that interactions with stateembedded actors increase field stability, yet this effect decreases with the field's level of abstraction. We contrast a pair of US movements, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, according to their interactions with stateembedded actors. Through the New York Times's API, we collect and produce article coappearance networks that approximate the population of Times's indexed organizations. We parse fields from these networks using community detection algorithms. Our analyses test stability using triadic closure propensities and average coreness. Our findings show that subgroups affiliated with the Tea Party had greater stability than those of Occupy Wall Street.
Florida. His areas of interest include social movements, deviance, radical activism, and the effe... more Florida. His areas of interest include social movements, deviance, radical activism, and the effects of new communication technologies on political behavior. His dissertation examines the decision making and organization of grassroots anti-authoritarian movements on both the political right and left. His published work has appeared in the Journal ofSocial Structure, the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements.
Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full range of organ... more Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full range of organizations appearing in the media with movements remains underexamined. To analyze this organizational complexity, we draw upon field theory, relating it to concepts from social network analysis. We hypothesize that interactions with stateembedded actors increase field stability, yet this effect decreases with the field's level of abstraction. We contrast a pair of US movements, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, according to their interactions with stateembedded actors. Through the New York Times's API, we collect and produce article coappearance networks that approximate the population of Times's indexed organizations. We parse fields from these networks using community detection algorithms. Our analyses test stability using triadic closure propensities and average coreness. Our findings show that subgroups affiliated with the Tea Party had greater stability than those ...
In this article we review the contributions that social movement and social conversion literature... more In this article we review the contributions that social movement and social conversion literatures have made to the sociological understandings of radicalization. We focus particular attention to the elements present within social movements that may facilitate the development of a radical identity, as well as examining the social process by which activists may convert to a radical identity. For support of our arguments, we draw upon the established literature as well as the ethnographic research and experiences of the two authors. We conclude that radicalization is a process that can be facilitated by the same aspects of social movements that enable the development of collective identities, but that radicalism does not have a single unitary path, but rather a variety of potential outcomes.
In this article we review the contributions that social movement and social conversion literature... more In this article we review the contributions that social movement and social conversion literatures have made to the sociological understandings of radicalization. We focus particular attention to the elements present within social movements that may facilitate the development of a radical identity, as well as examining the social process by which activists may convert to a radical identity. For support of our arguments, we draw upon the established literature as well as the ethnographic research and experiences of the two authors. We conclude that radicalization is a process that can be facilitated by the same aspects of social movements that enable the development of collective identities, but that radicalism does not have a single unitary path, but rather a variety of potential outcomes.
This study examines global patterns of stability and change within six longitudinal samples of En... more This study examines global patterns of stability and change within six longitudinal samples of English-language weblogs (or "blogs") during the 2004 U.S. Presidential election campaign. Using distance-based methods of graph comparison, we explore the evolution of the blog-blog citation networks for each sample during the period. In addition to describing the qualitative dynamics of the blog networks, we relate major campaign events (e.g., party political conventions and debates) to the observed pace of change. As we demonstrate, such events are associated with substantial differences in overall network volatility; moreover, volatility is also shown to have strong seasonal and endogenous components. Our findings suggest that external factors (both regular and episodic) may be important drivers of network dynamics.
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