%0 Journal Article
%T Analyzing public opinions on death penalty abolishment
%A Adiyana Sharag-Eldin
%A Brian Spitzberg
%A Ling Wu
%A Xinyue Ye
%J Chinese Sociological Dialogue
%@ 2397-2017
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2397200918761665
%X A meme consists of any words or images in a text that can be replicated across communicators in the exchange of information. This study tests the Multilevel Model of Meme Diffusion (M3D) in a case study in the digital electronic technology that captures the controversial opinions regarding death penalty abolishment in Nebraska. The objective is to demonstrate that an internet-based study using social media data can be used to analyze and predict social processes engaging with phenomena in real space. The authors utilize the meme death_penalty in Twitter texts to predict public perception of death penalty abolishment in Nebraska. The M3D theory integrates the fields of geography and computer-mediated communication technology to explain and predict public opinion on the death penalty
%K controversial opinions
%K death penalty
%K meme diffusion
%K social media
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2397200918761665