Anti-racist protests
Analyzing the history of Black protests in the US and Canada using machine learning methods. Read our papers on Sociological Science and Mobilization to learn more.
U.S. and Canadian Higher Education Protests and University and Police Responses
In this paper, we researched protest patterns at U.S. and Canadian universities in the 2010s. The research draws on a new dataset, the Higher Ed Protest Event Dataset, which combines machine learning and sociological hand coding of 16,069 campus newspaper articles. The sample consists of 5,553 higher ed protests involving 584 universities and colleges between 2012 and 2018. The dataset also includes university and police responses to a subset of protests. The authors find that protest frequency is patterned by the academic calendar. The top issue in both U.S. and Canadian higher education protests was university administration and governance.
Read more from the full Socius paper here, which gives insights about our dataset and initial results from major protest waves in the US and Canada.
Foundational work in protest event analysis
We describe our methodology for maintaining the connection of event data and media data, and use this approach to analyze Black protests in the US in newswires from 1994 to 2010.