TY - JOUR

T1 - Occupy Wall Street

T2 - A new political form of movement and community?

AU - Jensen, Michael J.

AU - Bang, Henrik

PY - 2013/12/12

Y1 - 2013/12/12

N2 - This article analyzes the political form of Occupy Wall Street on Twitter. Drawing on evidence contained within the profiles of over 50,000 Twitter users, political identities of participants are characterized using natural language processing. The results find evidence of a traditional oppositional social movement alongside a legitimizing countermovement, but also a new notion of political community as an ensemble of discursive practices that are endogenous to the constitution of political regimes from the “inside out.” These new political identities are bound by thin ties of political solidarity linked to the transformative capacities of the movement rather than thick ties of social solidarity.

AB - This article analyzes the political form of Occupy Wall Street on Twitter. Drawing on evidence contained within the profiles of over 50,000 Twitter users, political identities of participants are characterized using natural language processing. The results find evidence of a traditional oppositional social movement alongside a legitimizing countermovement, but also a new notion of political community as an ensemble of discursive practices that are endogenous to the constitution of political regimes from the “inside out.” These new political identities are bound by thin ties of political solidarity linked to the transformative capacities of the movement rather than thick ties of social solidarity.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Social movements

KW - Twitter

KW - political participation,

KW - atural language processing

U2 - 10.1080/19331681.2013.803948

DO - 10.1080/19331681.2013.803948

M3 - Journal article

VL - 10

SP - 444

EP - 461

JO - Journal of Information Technology & Politics

JF - Journal of Information Technology & Politics

SN - 1933-1681

IS - 4

ER -