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AI and Social Movements

How do ideas move from margin to center? Who are the people behind those ideas? Can machine learning methods help to credit them for their important work?

Using #StopCopCity and #BlackLivesMatter as case studies, we explore the uses–and, crucially, the limits–of AI for the study of social movements.

Project Links

https://www.aiai.network/ai-and-social-movements/

team members

Project lead: Lauren Klein (Emory, Departments of Data & Decision Sciences and English)

Contributing faculty: Sandeep Soni (Emory, Department of Data & Decision Sciences)

Project team: 

  • Dani Roytburg (Emory, BA ’25, Computer Science and Quantitative Social Sciences), 
  • Debbie Olorunisola (Yale, BA ’26 Statistics and Data Science), 
  • Dez Miller (Emory, Ph.D. ’26, Comparative Literature), 
  • Diana Duarte (Emory, Ph.D. ‘27, Hispanic Studies) 
  • Odelia Larbi-Amoah (Emory, BA ‘26 Data & Decision Sciences and Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies) 
  • Ololade Faniyi (Emory, Ph.D. ’28, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Publications

Roytburg, D.*, D. Olorunisola, D.*, S. Soni, and L. Klein. “Words and Action: Modeling Linguistic Leadership in #BlackLivesMatter Communities.” Proceedings of ICWSM 2025. AAAI, 2025.