[PDF] Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest | Semantic Scholar Skip to search formSkip to main content> Semantic Scholar's Logo Search Sign InCreate Free Account You are currently offline. Some features of the site may not work correctly. DOI:10.1177/1461444816676646 Corpus ID: 4975043Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest @article{Freelon2018QuantifyingTP, title={Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest}, author={Deen Freelon and C. McIlwain and Meredith Clark}, journal={New Media & Society}, year={2018}, volume={20}, pages={1011 - 990} } Deen Freelon, C. McIlwain, Meredith Clark Published 2018 Sociology, Computer Science New Media & Society The exercise of power has been an implicit theme in research on the use of social media for political protest, but few studies have attempted to measure social media power and its consequences directly. This study develops and measures three theoretically grounded metrics of social media power—unity, numbers, and commitment—as wielded on Twitter by a social movement (Black Lives Matter [BLM]), a counter-movement (political conservatives), and an unaligned party (mainstream news outlets) over… Expand View on SAGE charltonmcilwain.com Save to Library Create Alert Cite Launch Research Feed Share This Paper 71 CitationsHighly Influential Citations 10 Background Citations 31 Methods Citations 5 View All Figures, Tables, and Topics from this paper table 1 figure 1 table 2 figure 2 table 3 figure 3 figure 4 figure 5 View All 8 Figures & Tables Social media Unity Commitment scheme Paper Mentions News Article Education / Journal of Applied Communications, "Crowdsourcing Change: An Analysis of Twitter Discourse on Food Waste and Reduction Strategies." 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