RT Article
T1 Social accountability, ethics, and the Occupy Wall Street protests
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 180
IS 1
SP 17
OP 31
A1 Neu, Dean 1960-
A1 Saxton, Gregory D.
A1 Rahaman, Abu Shiraz
LA English
PB Springer
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1817388150
AB This study examines the 3.5 m+ English-language original tweets that occurred during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. Starting from previous research, we analyze how character terms such as "the banker," "politician," "the teaparty," "GOP," and "the corporation," as well as concept terms such as "ethics," "fairness," "morals," "justice," and "democracy" were used by individual participants to respond to the Occupy Wall Street events. These character and concept terms not only allowed individuals to take an ethical stance but also accumulated into a citizen’s narrative about social accountability. The analysis illustrates how the centrality of the different concepts and characters in the conversation changed over time as well as how the concepts ethics, morals, fairness, justice, and democracy participated within the conversation, helping to amplify the ethical attributes of different characters. These findings contribute to our understanding of how demands for social accountability are articulated and change over time.
K1 #OccupyWallStreet
K1 Citizen voice
K1 Citizenship arenas
K1 Ethical narratives
K1 Social accountability
K1 Social Media
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-021-04795-3