worldwide protest map
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- colin_s
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/art…
since 1979.
things start really heating up in the late 90s, and once 2007 hits it basically looks like the world explodes.
- ukit20
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing.
- BabySnakes0
What was going on in Kansas seems like that dot was there the whole time?
- that’s the placeholder dot for a protest in the US without a city specifiedpressplay
- are you sure it's not westboro baptist church? these guys,.... http://en.wikipedia.…vaxorcist
- set0
Interesting/scary
- pressplay0
Kalev Leetaru, the Yahoo! fellow at Georgetown University working on the GDELT project, told FP by email that the apparent uptick in protests around the world starting in the mid-1990s may be misleading. "In some other work we are doing right now, preliminary results suggest that as a percentage of all events captured in GDELT, protests have not become more common overall," he explained. "So, the majority of that increase in protest events over time stems from the increase in available digital media," especially news.
- yeah, increase in public awareness and or web,etc... used to depend on TV/Printvaxorcist
- ukit20
That's what I suspected too. Maybe what is actually increasing is our knowledge of the protests.
Having said that, the map also equates different kinds of protests, so a protest outside an abortion clinic in Kansas is the same as millions of Egyptians overthrowing their government. There does seem to be a rising amount of activism and political instability in the Middle East, in Europe, etc.