What are People Talking about in #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAsianHate? Exploring and Categorizing Twitter Topics Emerging in Online Social Movements through the Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model. (arXiv:2205.14725v2 [cs.IR] UPDATED)

Minority groups have been using social media to organize social movements
that create profound social impacts. Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Stop Asian
Hate (SAH) are two successful social movements that have spread on Twitter that
promote protests and activities against racism and increase the public's
awareness of other social challenges that minority groups face. However,
previous studies have mostly conducted qualitative analyses of tweets or
interviews with users, which may not comprehensively and validly represent all
tweets. Very few …

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