I've written a blog post that is a preliminary draft of a paper about the importance of the organizing of the 1995 #MillionManMarch in constructing coalitional unity. I'm interested in getting feedback from people who might know something about this topic. #BlackHistory #SocialMovements @sociology @politicalscience https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoliticsjustice/2023/01/29/organizing-the-million-man-march/

Next going through the articles in the #MillionManMarch in our data. Figured out how to extract them from the database into both Stata and Word so I can do both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Organize them by date and newswire vs. Black news. What did the articles say? It took me about two days to get the articles organized and parts of a very rough draft of findings/patterns written up. Findings seem interesting. Pressing ahead. #Research #WritingProcess

Check the #Literature on the #MillionManMarch. Review articles I've already found. Search SocIndex, find almost nothing in @sociology . Check Google Scholar. Find a little more. Check the references in books I've read, find a little more, including angles & have not thought of in @politicalscience. Still not a lot. Maybe there is a paper here, although I think the main pattern is well recognized in what has been written.

#WritingProcess The plan is to write up short empirical pieces for blogs or preprints, then work it into a more formal paper. Empirics on #NewsCoverage of #MillionManMarch will be interesting even if there's nothing new to add to theory or analysis.

Wondering whether anyone is interested in an ongoing thread about the process of #DataCleaning and #PaperWriting in our project about #NewsCoverage of #BlackProtest in mainstream newswires and Black newspapers. Lots of data to clean (~10K articles & ~10K events), so looking for ways to get papers along the way. We clean data by issue cluster, so I reviewed the #MillionManMarch articles & decided to see if there is a paper about that. I think I saw some interesting patterns.