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...ace in the protest network?. RELATED WORKS The type of communication channels influence the flow of information (Cha, 2010). Protesters of social movements have strong connections with each other and maintain formal, informal and interpersonal relationships (Cha, 2010). Social networking analysis assists to detect the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, October 31- November 4, 2014, Seattle, WA, USA. Copyright is retained by the author(s). personal ties people have with their peers. It also exposes how protesters hear about social movements and what motivates them to participate in it (Wellman, 1999; McAdam & Paulsen, 1993; Snow, Zurcher & EklandOlson, 1980). Several studies also examine the role of social media as a communication tool during social movements and apply network visualization and ethnographic methods to understand how information spreads (Haimson & Cartagena, 2013; Wilson & Dunn, 2011). Despite the interests to understand the role social media plays in protests, limited number of research investigate the large scale social media data to analyze the protest based activities which is the focus of this poster. DATA COLLECTION Twitter API was used for data collection from the Twitter public timeline....

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...-life experiences in connection with elections, disasters, crisis events, sports, entertainment and so on. However, use of Twitter, particularly, during global social movements like Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street has been revolutionary (Haimson & Cartagena, 2013). Twitter has been deliberately used as a tool for opinion formation, communication and protest organization during social movements. The influential information sources play critical roles during information diffusion process. Large numbers of followers help the influential nodes achieve their target of information dissemination (Tufekci & Wilson, 2012). In February, 2013 the protesters of Shahbag Movement, named after the protest site associated with a central location of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, started demonstration by demanding capital punishments for all of the country’s war criminals. The city wide demonstration converted into a country wide protest once the demands raised by the protesters were not fulfilled which gradually received global media attentions. Political parties got involved into it as the war criminals represent the leaderships of one particular political group. Their supporters started, consequently, counter-protes...

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...mination and communication is very popular, research reporting about the trends and insights of how protest information is shared in Twitter is limited. Moreover, a report related to the type of information diffusion behavior the protesters expose is also scarce. This poster examines the following research questions: 1. Who are the central figures in the protest network? 2. What interaction patterns are common in the protesters? 3. What type of information diffusion process takes place in the protest network?. RELATED WORKS The type of communication channels influence the flow of information (Cha, 2010). Protesters of social movements have strong connections with each other and maintain formal, informal and interpersonal relationships (Cha, 2010). Social networking analysis assists to detect the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, October 31- November 4, 2014, Seattle, WA, USA. Copyright is retained by the author(s). personal ties people have with their peers. It also exposes how protesters hear about social movements and what motivates them to participate in it (Wellman, 1999; McAdam & Paulsen, 1993; Snow, Zurcher & EklandOlson, 1980). Several studies also examine the role of social media as a comm...

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...ormation into the network. Keywords Information diffusion behavior, Twitter, social network analysis, social movement. INTRODUCTION The availability of Web 2.0 tools and various social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) empower citizens by providing a channel for communication and information dissemination. Twitter is primarily used for sharing real-life experiences in connection with elections, disasters, crisis events, sports, entertainment and so on. However, use of Twitter, particularly, during global social movements like Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street has been revolutionary (Haimson & Cartagena, 2013). Twitter has been deliberately used as a tool for opinion formation, communication and protest organization during social movements. The influential information sources play critical roles during information diffusion process. Large numbers of followers help the influential nodes achieve their target of information dissemination (Tufekci & Wilson, 2012). In February, 2013 the protesters of Shahbag Movement, named after the protest site associated with a central location of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, started demonstration by demanding capital punishments for all of the country’s war crimina...

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...ing analysis assists to detect the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, October 31- November 4, 2014, Seattle, WA, USA. Copyright is retained by the author(s). personal ties people have with their peers. It also exposes how protesters hear about social movements and what motivates them to participate in it (Wellman, 1999; McAdam & Paulsen, 1993; Snow, Zurcher & EklandOlson, 1980). Several studies also examine the role of social media as a communication tool during social movements and apply network visualization and ethnographic methods to understand how information spreads (Haimson & Cartagena, 2013; Wilson & Dunn, 2011). Despite the interests to understand the role social media plays in protests, limited number of research investigate the large scale social media data to analyze the protest based activities which is the focus of this poster. DATA COLLECTION Twitter API was used for data collection from the Twitter public timeline. The dataset was created by using both the search term “Shahbag” and the hashtag “#Shahbag” which was observed from 26th to 29th May, 2014. A total of 213 tweeters were found with a total of 713 tweets in those four days. Due to the scope of this poster, it only analyzes the sample ...