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Black Networks Matter

Black Networks Matter
  • The Role of Interracial Contact and Social Media in the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests
  • Matthew David Simonson, Ray Block Jr, James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, David M. J. Lazer
  • Published online:
    24 January 2024
    Print publication:
    15 February 2024
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  • Scholars have long recognized that interpersonal networks play a role in mobilizing social movements. Yet, many questions remain. This Element addresses these questions by theorizing about three dimensions of ties: emotionally strong or weak, movement insider or outsider, and ingroup or cross-cleavage. The survey data on the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests show that weak and cross-cleavage ties among outsiders enabled the movement to evolve from a small provocation into a massive national mobilization. In particular, the authors find that Black people mobilized one another through social media and spurred their non-Black friends to protest by sharing their personal encounters with racism. These results depart from the established literature regarding the civil rights movement that emphasizes strong, movement-internal, and racially homogenous ties. The networks that mobilize appear to have changed in the social media era. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue

  • Jon Green, James N. Druckman, Matthew A. Baum, David Lazer, Katherine Ognyanova, Matthew D. Simonson, Jennifer Lin, Mauricio Santillana, Roy H. Perlis
  • Journal:
    British Journal of Political Science / Volume 53 / Issue 2 / April 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 October 2022, pp. 698-706
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    April 2023
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  • Politics and science have become increasingly intertwined. Salient scientific issues, such as climate change, evolution, and stem-cell research, become politicized, pitting partisans against one another. This creates a challenge of how to effectively communicate on such issues. Recent work emphasizes the need for tailored messages to specific groups. Here, we focus on whether generalized messages also can matter. We do so in the context of a highly polarized issue: extreme COVID-19 vaccine resistance. The results show that science-based, moral frame, and social norm messages move behavioral intentions, and do so by the same amount across the population (that is, homogeneous effects). Counter to common portrayals, the politicization of science does not preclude using broad messages that resonate with the entire population.

  • APSA Announces the Formation of the Careers Diversity Committee

  • DAVID LAZER
  • Journal:
    Political Science Today / Volume 1 / Issue 2 / May 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 June 2021, p. 6
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    May 2021
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