New open-access paper by Ellen Berrey, Nathan Kim, Kristen Bass, and me over at Socius -- We analyzed over 16,000 news articles using a machine-assisted system, yielding a dataset of 5,553 higher ed protest events, and university and police responses. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... - ThreadSky

alexhanna.bsky.social • 102 days ago

New open-access paper by Ellen Berrey, Nathan Kim, Kristen Bass, and me over at Socius --

We analyzed over 16,000 news articles using a machine-assisted system, yielding a dataset of 5,553 higher ed protest events, and university and police responses.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231241297447

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pamelaoliver.bsky.social•102 days ago

Glad to see this!!!!!

alexhanna.bsky.social•102 days ago

Thanks Pam! Obviously, it truly builds on your work.

alexhanna.bsky.social•102 days ago

We found that activists focused on university governance across both countries. In the US, protests took on a national character and focused more on racism on campus and the first Trump presidency. In Canada, protests were provincially-focused and dealt more with austerity, labor, and tuition.

pamelaoliver.bsky.social•102 days ago

oooh, somebody on here was asking about this issue exactly within the past week.

alexhanna.bsky.social•102 days ago

Significantly, apart from the Maple Spring of protests in Montréal in 2012, intense policing of higher ed protests were nearly absent. Administrators preferred to wait students out, or take a "negotiated management" approach.

Compare that with the heavy hand of pro-Palestine encampments in 2023-24.

alexhanna.bsky.social•102 days ago

We're working on several more papers with these data, including a comparison of policing of encampments from 2012-2018, and pro-Palestine protests of 2023-24.

All the analyses are available on GitHub (https://github.com/MPEDS/) and the supplemental materials over at Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/13909385).

hebagowayed.bsky.social•102 days ago

I was just about to DM you to ask if the methodology could be used for pro Palestine protests. That’s awesome!

alexhanna.bsky.social•102 days ago

yes! I mean there's already a lot of crowdsourced data on Palestine protests. See https://www.palestineiseverywhere.com/ and https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/crowd-counting-blog-an-empirical-overview-of-recent-pro-palestine-protests-at-u-s-schools/

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