Pamela Oliver
This is another post that is a small side project to the piece I’m revising about the Jena 6 protest in 2007. The goal is to use Google Trends to see if I could determine whether any of the early publicity about the case made a difference in the trends.
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In studying protest events using news sources, it is important to recognize the non-equivalence of events and articles about events. Social movement researchers usually code information about protest events in news sources with the goal of drawing conclusions about the frequency and size of the actual physical events that led
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