[Air-L] Articles on Facebook Groups

[Azi Lev-On]

 Hi Kat

Nili Steinfeld and myself just publised a piece in Social Science Computer
Review analyzing activity in Facebook groups dedicated to "miscarriage of
justice" campaigns calling for justice for (arguably) innocent people who
were wrongly convicted. See the abstract below.
Link: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0894439318771523

Best, Azi.




Social media constitute useful and effective platforms for miscarriage of
justice campaigners to
challenge state authorities and decisions taken by the criminal justice
system. To characterize
such endeavors, this study analyzes the activity in such a major group
dedicated to the murder
case of Tair Rada and the trial of Roman Zadorov, one of the most
controversial legal cases in
Israel’s history. Using digital data extraction and linguistic analysis
tools, we focus on five
themes: (1) the central role of group administrators in directing the
discourse and setting the
group agenda; (2) correspondence of group activity with off-line events and
mainstream media
coverage; (3) skewed distribution of post publications per user and
engagement measures per
post; (4) prominent topics in group discussions, revolving around key
figures, institutions and
officials, making justice, considering alternative theories and examining
investigative and forensic
materials; and (5) the framing of key figures, institutions, and values in
portraying a somewhat
dichotomous image of a corrupted justice system, an innocent man wrongly
convicted and a
Facebook group in the search for the truth.

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HI Kat

I looked at how community and activist groups used Facebook groups (and
other online and offline spaces):

Taylor-Smith, E. and Smith, C.F. (2018). Investigating the online and
offline contexts of day-to-day democracy as participation spaces.
Information, Communication & Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/
1369118X.2018.1469656

Probably some free views left here
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YuHyG4pFavmpa3n5B3kR/full

or contact me for a copy

-Ella


Dr Ella Taylor-Smith

School of Computing
Edinburgh Napier University
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh, EH10 5DT

Email: e.taylor-smith at napier.ac.uk

https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/ella-taylorsmith
http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith
@EllaTasm

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Katya Delaney <katya at praytellagency.com>
wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm researching Facebook groups right now, if anyone has any useful
> articles they'd like to share or any good resources, send them my way!
>
> Kat
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