The paper titled “Role of Social Media in Social Protest Cycles: A Sociomaterial Examination,” written by Monideepa Tarafdar, Isenberg’s Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor and PhD coordinator in information systems, and Deepa Kajal Ray, a data scientist with HSBC, was named winner of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) College of Senior Scholars Best Papers Award during the International Conference on Information Systems in Copenhagen in December. The paper was also named runner-up for best paper published in 2021 in the journal Information Systems Research.
The work analyzed how, after a fatal gang rape in Delhi, a social media-led protest engulfed India and led to dramatic change. According to Tarafdar, the series of events provide a prototype for how protest cycles occur today. Read more.