Analyzing Partisanship and Information Dissemination Patterns on Twitter after the Capitol Riots
“The assault of a violent rabble on the institutions of the US government that followed a speech by President Donald Trump and coincided with a Congressional session to confirm the new president as Joe Biden has drawn a huge response by the world on social media, but also by prominent figures at home in America and around the world.“
Welcome to our research project based on Twitter data from the few days following the Capitol riots in January 2021, made for Digital Humanities 150 at UCLA.
To navigate our site:
Project Description explains the significance of our project, as well as our research questions and intended audience.
Findings is a deep dive into the analysis of our corpus and a collection of visualizations we made to explore our dataset.
Our Data is an overview of how we collected our data, silences in our data, and our overall work plan for the project.
Conclusions is a brief summary of our findings, including our final understandings of our research as well as the significance of those findings.
About our Team features bios for each contributor to our project.
Sources hosts our bibliography, as well as a link to our dataset.
