Protesting the lockdown: geo-indexing a movement publicly opposing Covid-19 policies on Facebook

Figures & data

Table 1. Inter-coder reliability scores for the coding of framing tasks (Krippendorf’s α).

Diagnostic	Prognostic	Motivational	Identity	Worthiness	Unity	Numbers	Commitment
0.954	0.908	0.942	0.935	0.942	0.841	1	0.898

Figure 1. Directed bipartite geo-indexed network of connections between Facebook outlets (blue circles) and geo-indexed locations (red triangles). Nodes sized by out-degree. Pendant nodes with degree of 1, connected to a single outlet, are unlabelled.

Table 2. Descriptive network statistics.

Geo-indexed directed network
Nodes	Edges	Density	Modularity	E/I index
409	688	0.004	0.629	−0.284

Table 3. Mean LIWC scores for word categories in the geo-indexed and non-geo-indexed data.

Word category	Cognitive processes	Power	Affiliation	Causal words	We/Us	Negative emotions	They/Them	Positive emotions	Death	Religion	Anger	Assent
Geo-indexed posts
Mean score	7.090	2.505	1.692	0.883	0.873	0.702	0.534	0.448	0.172	0.147	0.055	0.054
Non-geo-indexed posts
Mean score	6.828	1.936	2.949	1.027	1.441	2.728	0.537	0.697	0.236	0.218	0.073	0.187

Figure 2. Heatmap of correlations between psycholinguistic word categories in the geo-indexed dataset (Pearson’s r, non-significant values of p >0.05 shaded in grey).

Table 4. Count of framing tasks and WUNC displays in the geo-indexed dataset.

Framing task (any)			Collective Identity	WUNC (any)
2232 (51.04% of total posts)			411 (9.40% of total posts)	1131 (25.86% of total posts)
Diagnostic	Prognostic	Motivational		Worthiness	Unity	Numbers	Commitment
1549 (35.42% of total posts; 69.40% of posts containing framing tasks)	786 (17.97% of total posts; 35.22% of posts containing framing tasks)	802 (18.34% of total posts; 35.93% of posts containing framing tasks)		332 (7.59% of total posts; 29.35% of posts displaying WUNC)	426 (9.74% of total posts; 37.67% of posts displaying WUNC)	608 (13.90% of total posts; 53.76% of posts displaying WUNC)	294 (6.72% of total posts; 25.99% of posts displaying WUNC)