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Autores principales: La Gatta, Valerio, Postiglione, Marco, Gilbert, Jeremy, Linna Jr., Daniel W., Greenfield, Morgan Manella, Shaw, Aaron, Subrahmanian, V. S.
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20986
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author La Gatta, Valerio
Postiglione, Marco
Gilbert, Jeremy
Linna Jr., Daniel W.
Greenfield, Morgan Manella
Shaw, Aaron
Subrahmanian, V. S.
author_facet La Gatta, Valerio
Postiglione, Marco
Gilbert, Jeremy
Linna Jr., Daniel W.
Greenfield, Morgan Manella
Shaw, Aaron
Subrahmanian, V. S.
contents Social movements supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) play a vital role in improving human lives. If journalists were aware of the relationship between social movements and external events, they could provide more precise, time-sensitive reporting about movement issues and SDGs. Our SMART system achieves this goal by collecting data from multiple sources, extracting emotions on various themes, and then using a transformer-based forecasting engine (DEEP) to predict quantity and intensity of emotions in future posts. This paper demonstrates SMART's Retrospective capabilities required by journalists via case studies analyzing social media discussions of the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter before and after the 2024 U.S. election. We create a novel 1-year dataset which we will release upon publication. It contains over 2.7M Reddit posts and over 1M news articles. We show that SMART enables early detection of discourse shifts around key political events, providing journalists with actionable insights to inform editorial planning. SMART was developed through multiple interactions with a panel of over 20 journalists from a variety of news organizations over a 2-year period, including an author of this paper.
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spellingShingle SMART: A Social Movement Analysis & Reasoning Tool with Case Studies on #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter
La Gatta, Valerio
Postiglione, Marco
Gilbert, Jeremy
Linna Jr., Daniel W.
Greenfield, Morgan Manella
Shaw, Aaron
Subrahmanian, V. S.
Social and Information Networks
Social movements supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) play a vital role in improving human lives. If journalists were aware of the relationship between social movements and external events, they could provide more precise, time-sensitive reporting about movement issues and SDGs. Our SMART system achieves this goal by collecting data from multiple sources, extracting emotions on various themes, and then using a transformer-based forecasting engine (DEEP) to predict quantity and intensity of emotions in future posts. This paper demonstrates SMART's Retrospective capabilities required by journalists via case studies analyzing social media discussions of the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter before and after the 2024 U.S. election. We create a novel 1-year dataset which we will release upon publication. It contains over 2.7M Reddit posts and over 1M news articles. We show that SMART enables early detection of discourse shifts around key political events, providing journalists with actionable insights to inform editorial planning. SMART was developed through multiple interactions with a panel of over 20 journalists from a variety of news organizations over a 2-year period, including an author of this paper.
title SMART: A Social Movement Analysis & Reasoning Tool with Case Studies on #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter
topic Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20986