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In the last decade, online social media has become the primary platform forprotesters to organize and express their agenda in various parts of the world.Nevertheless, scholars still debate whether online tools induce offlineprotests or facilitate them. Unfortunately, studies of protests often lackpanel data and cannot address how particular users change their behaviour overtime in line with the protest agenda. To this end, we analyze a new dataset ofthe Facebook page EuroMaydan that was explicitly created to facilitate theprotest in Ukraine from November 2013 to February 2014. Moreover, our analysisfollows this page even after the end of the protest till June 2014. In total,the dataset includes 26,631 posts and 1,470,593 comments that were generated by124,790 users during and after the protests. We use this panel data to test howparticular users switch between the two most popular languages of this page:Ukrainian and Russian. Previous studies have puzzled with language behaviourduring the Ukrainian protest. Although researchers expected to see moreUkrainian language due to national mobilization, studies discovered thatUkrainian protesters frequently used Russian, especially after the end of theprotest. A hypothesis was suggested that protesters use language strategicallydepending on circumstances (e.g., to maximize outreach). However, previousstudies relied on aggregated data and did not explore the within-subjectvariation of language behaviour. Our study adds to this scholarship by adding alongitudinal analysis of language behaviour. Considering the broadercontribution of this paper, we add to the literature on protests by validatingprevious findings derived from surveys that activists change their behaviour toreflect prior preferences and situational goals rather than modify theirpreferences.

Longitudinal change in language behaviour during protests: A case study of Euromaidan in Ukraine