Activism via attention: interpretable spatiotemporal learning to forecast protest activities
Abstract The diffusion of new information and communication technologies—social media in particular—has played a key role in social and political activism in recent decades. In this paper, we propose a theory-motivated, spatiotemporal learning approach, ActAttn, that leverages social movement theori...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2019-02-01
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| Series: | EPJ Data Science |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-019-0183-y |