Sarah Birch Department of Politics School of Social and Political Sciences University of Glasgow Project researchers Sarah Birch Politics Paul Cockshott Computing Science Iadh O unis Computing science ID: 273152
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Explaining and Mitigating Electoral Violence
Sarah Birch
Department of Politics
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of GlasgowSlide2
Project researchers
Sarah Birch, Politics
Paul Cockshott, Computing Science
Iadh
O
unis, Computing science
Craig
M
acdonald, Computing Science
A PhD studentSlide3
Aims of the project
To
develop conceptual, practical and methodological tools
to:
Understand electoral violence
Assess strategies for deterring electoral violence
Assess strategies for preventing/minimising electoral violence
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Electoral violence and social media
This project does not study social media
This project will use social media as data to study electoral violence
Specifically, the project will use tweets about electoral violence to identify incidents of electoral violence in selected elections around the worldSlide5
Using social media to approximate events
A
dictionary of terms will be developed
Pilot coding of tweets will be conducted manually and compared with independent data on electoral violence for pilot cases
Machine-learning techniques will be developed to analyse tweets and interpolate from these a list of incidents of electoral violence + salient characteristics of each incident