Title: Analysing the Algerian social movement through Twitter

Authors: Meriem Laifa; Djamila Mohdeb; Mouhoub Belazzoug

Addresses: Computer Science Department, Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi University, Bordj Bou Arreridj 34030, Algeria; Laboratory of Informatics and its Applications of M'sila (LIAM), M'sila, Algeria ' Computer Science Department, Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi University, Bordj Bou Arreridj 34030, Algeria ' Computer Science Department, Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi University, Bordj Bou Arreridj 34030, Algeria

Abstract: Technology has altered collective actions guidance resulting in a new regulatory frame for action. For the sake of being successful in a social movement, people plan and advertise in advance to encourage and gather greater participation to strengthen the influence of crowds. For this, social media offers exceptional opportunities to organise masses of people into actions with lower participation expenses, and to foster new repositories of information and actions that go beyond communities offline. While most contemporary social movements have been studied from different perspectives, the Algerian social movement (i.e., Hirak) was overlooked in the literature. This paper presents a distinctive foundation for understanding the Algerian Hirak through analysing Twitter data. The used approach is established mainly at the intersection of sociology and data analysis, with the intention to generate an improved discernment of this movement. Promising future research directions are also discussed in this paper.

Keywords: social movements; social media; Algerian Hirak; natural language processing; Twitter; Algerian Social Movement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2024.138776

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2024 Vol.24 No.4, pp.406 - 430

Published online: 31 May 2024 *

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