Calls to Action on Social Media: Detection, Social Impact, and Censorship Potential (D19-50)
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| Challenge: | Calls to action are effective means of mobilization in social networks, but their potential for censorship and predicting offline protest events has not yet been evaluated. |
| Approach: | They examine the possibility of their automatic detection on historical data from the 2011-2013 protests in Bolotnaya, Russia. |
| Outcome: | The political calls to action can be annotated and detected with relatively high accuracy and have a moderate positive correlation with actual rally attendance. |
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