Colin Wayne Leach, Psychology, Africana Studies
Courtney Cogburn, Social Work
Sining Chen, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research  
Kathleen McKeown, Computer Science
Susan McGregor, Data Science Institute

Social media is a powerful means of individual expression, and collective consolidation, of people’s sentiment about the most important issues in our society.​ ​​This transdisciplinary​ ​project marries the latest advances in computational and statistical techniques of language use over time with social behavioral theories of emotion and stress to examine the temporal dynamics of ​tweets surrounding police killings of Black people and subsequent protest​s​ (e.g., Black Lives Matter).