This study examines the 3.5 m+ English-language original tweets that occurred during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. Starting from previous research, we analyze how character terms such as “the banker,” “politician,” “the teaparty,” “GOP,” and “the corporation,” as well as concept terms such as “ethics,” “fairness,” “morals,” “justice,” and “democracy” were used by individual participants to respond to the Occupy Wall Street events. These character and concept terms not only allowed individuals to take an ethical stance but also accumulated into a citizen’s narrative about social accountability. The analysis illustrates how the centrality of the different concepts and characters in the conversation changed over time as well as how the concepts ethics, morals, fairness, justice, and democracy participated within the conversation, helping to amplify the ethical attributes of different characters. These findings contribute to our understanding of how demands for social accountability are articulated and change over time.

本研究调查了 2011 年占领华尔街抗议期间发生的 350 万多条英文原始推文。从前人的研究出发，我们分析了“银行家”、“政治家”、“茶党”、“共和党”、“公司”等人物术语以及概念个别参与者使用“道德”、“公平”、“道德”、“正义”和“民主”等术语来回应占领华尔街事件。这些性格和概念术语不仅允许个人采取道德立场，而且还积累到公民关于社会责任的叙述中。分析说明了对话中不同概念和人物的中心性如何随时间变化，以及伦理、道德、公平、正义和民主等概念如何参与对话，有助于放大不同人物的伦理属性。这些发现有助于我们理解社会责任的要求是如何随着时间的推移而变化的。