Black Lives Matter protests shift public discourse. Academic Article

abstract

• SignificanceThis study uses large-scale news media and social media data to show that nationwide Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests occur concurrently with sharp increases in public attention to components of the BLM agenda. We also show that attention to BLM and related concepts is not limited to these brief periods of protest but is sustained after protest has ceased. This suggests that protest events incited a change in public awareness of BLM's vision of social change and the dissemination of antiracist ideas into popular discourse.

authors

• Yan, Yaojun

published proceedings

• Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

altmetric score

• 347.764

author list (cited authors)

• Dunivin, Z. O., Yan, H. Y., Ince, J., & Rojas, F.

citation count

• 65

complete list of authors

• Dunivin, Zackary Okun||Yan, Harry Yaojun||Ince, Jelani||Rojas, Fabio

publication date

• March 2022

publisher

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  Journal

keywords

• Black Lives Matter
• Black Or African American
• Cultural Change
• Humans
• Public Opinion
• RACISM
• Social Change
• Social Media
• Social Movements
• United States

PubMed Central ID

• 35239433

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1073/pnas.2117320119

start page

• e2117320119

volume

• 119

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117320119