Colin Wayne Leach, Psychology, Africana StudiesCourtney Cogburn, Social WorkSining Chen, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Kathleen McKeown, Computer ScienceSusan 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 protests (e.g., Black Lives Matter).