1. Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Occupation and Standoff
Annijke Wade
GEOG 479
Cyber Geography
2016
Social Network Analysis Using Twitter and NodeXL
http://katu.com/news/local/gallery/leader-of-armed-group-says-no-
plans-to-leave-wildlife-refuge

2. Malheur Wildlife Refuge Takeover
• 41 day occupation of Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge located 30
miles South of Burns, Oregon
http://www.voanews.com/content/world-media-frame-oregon-standoff-in-terms-of-race-terrorism/3132356.html
http://www.jointinterest.com/2016/01/the-oregon-standoff-black-lives-matter-protests-and-the-media/
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-seeks-peaceful-end-armed-standoff-oregon-federal-building-n489606
/

3. TIMELINE OF EVENTS
2012
2/11/2016

4. THE BUNDY’S

5. -Geopolitical issue at home
-Example of a militant group in U.S
-Example of armed group willing to occupy federal
property
-Sign of the times, will there be more uprisings like
this?
WHY IS THIS EVENT SIGNIFICANT?

6. • Users: Occupiers, Supporters, and
Conservationists, Opponents, Commentators,
and Journalists
• Law Enforcement: FBI, Oregon State Police,
and Harney County Sheriff
USERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN STANDOFF

7. • Youtube – Pro & Anti-Occupation videos
• Facebook– Harney County Sheriff’s Office
• Blogs– Conservative Treehouse
• Other Video: FBI LeRoy Finicum death video
USE OF OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA

8. CLOSE PROXIMITY CONTACTS

9. NodeXL Twitter Search was used to query hashtags
Graph Metrics were Calculated
Groups were created
ANALYSIS

10. Twitter query
By hashtag
ID patterns
Leadership
Organization
By
Social Media
TITLE

11. Anti-Occupation Protester
Pro and Anti-Occupation people
meeting at townhall
JANUARY 6, 2016 TWIT PICS

12. #burnsoregon
#oregonstandoff
#ammonbundy
#oregonmilitia
#oregonunderattack
HASHTAGS USED

13. Hashtag Pro-Occupation Anti-Occupation
#oregonmilitia
#ammonbundy
#oregonstandoff
#oregonunderattack
#burnsoregon
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SORTING OF DATA

14. Data Collected:
January 13, 2016
#burnsoregon
#burnsoregon

15. #burnsoregon

16. METRICS

17. METRICS

18. METRICS

19. WHAT I FOUND @ammon_bundy

20. WHAT I FOUND @amandapeacher

21. WHAT I FOUND @annakingn3

22. WHAT I FOUND @npr

23. WHAT I FOUND @harneycosheriff

24. WHAT I FOUND @katunews

25. WHAT I FOUND @ptsantilli

26. WHAT I FOUND @kirksiegler

27. WHAT I FOUND @opbnews

28. WHAT I FOUND @jason_a_w

29. WHAT I FOUND @beachcombernc

30. WHAT I FOUND @gregjeske

31. WHAT I FOUND @conservativebyt

32. LIVE TWEETING EVENT
The anti-occupation can be mapped via social network
analysis, but it doesn’t appear that the hashtag
reavealed the organizational structure of the occupiers.

33. WHAT’S NEXT?

34. SPECIAL THANKS
Special Thanks to Ben Pollack, Alexander Buxton and Taylor McKinnon
for allowing me to use their social media accounts to gather pictures
and inside information regarding the standoff .