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The Digital Society Project (DSP) provides high-quality, publicly available, data describing the intersection between politics and social media in countries around the world. https://www.digitalsocietyproject.org
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Finally, we also collaborated with other scholars to collect, and make public, candidate-level data on social media presence, and candidate characteristics, for recent elections for twelve countries around the world (this work was funded by Twitter, in the before-times). 5/5
14.12.2024 19:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0With the support of NSF we're expanding this work to a new expert pool, and a new set of questions. We have conducted one round of data collection and are gearing up for our first update. We expect to publicly release data in the next few months. 2/5
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Title and abstract for "Measuring online political activity: introducing the digital society project." ABSTRACT Political engagement is deeply enmeshed with online activity. However, there has been a lack of publicly available cross-country datasets enabling researchers and policymakers to understand how politics and digital space intersect. This paper introduces the Digital Society Project (DSP), which aims to provide systematic, cross-country measurement of political institutions and behavior that manifest online or are affected by online activity. Using the Varieties of Democracy Project infrastructure, DSP provides annual global data from 2000 to 2021. The dataset features 35 indicators measuring online censorship, politicization of social media, coordinated information operations, foreign influence, monitoring of domestic politics, and regime cyber capacity...
We have a recent paper in the Journal of Information Technology and Politics that introduces these data and does some validation. doi.org/10.1080/1933... 3/5
14.12.2024 19:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0First, in partnership with @vdeminstitute.bsky.social we field an annual expert survey about online censorship, polarization and politicization of social media, disinformation campaigns, coordinated information operations, and foreign influence in and monitoring of domestic politics. 2/5
14.12.2024 19:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Reintroducing ourselves now that bsky is a thing: DSP aims to help answer questions surrounding interactions between the internet and politics by providing high-quality, publicly available, cross-national data describing the intersection between politics and social media. 1/5
14.12.2024 19:18 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0In 2022 & 2023 DSP collaborated with various scholars to collect data about candidates for national legislative (and sometimes subnational) elections in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Tunisia, and the USA. #polisky 1/4
15.11.2024 22:47 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1Thanks to @alucardi1.bsky.social @snurb.bsky.social @wdaniel127.bsky.social
@msaeltzer.bsky.social @gillesverniers.bsky.social @profdansmith.bsky.social @dotanhaim.bsky.social @a2hicken.bsky.social and all the other folks who worked with us on this project!
You can find datasets, with codebooks, here: digitalsocietyproject.org/candidate-da... 3/4
15.11.2024 22:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Data include social media handles (mostly Twitter, but sometimes other), which are now quite stale, but also career, party membership, and demographic data that may be of use to scholars of elections, political parties, and political careers. 2/4
15.11.2024 22:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In 2022 & 2023 DSP collaborated with various scholars to collect data about candidates for national legislative (and sometimes subnational) elections in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Tunisia, and the USA. #polisky 1/4
15.11.2024 22:47 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Title and abstract for "Measuring online political activity: introducing the digital society project." ABSTRACT Political engagement is deeply enmeshed with online activity. However, there has been a lack of publicly available cross-country datasets enabling researchers and policymakers to understand how politics and digital space intersect. This paper introduces the Digital Society Project (DSP), which aims to provide systematic, cross-country measurement of political institutions and behavior that manifest online or are affected by online activity. Using the Varieties of Democracy Project infrastructure, DSP provides annual global data from 2000 to 2021. The dataset features 35 indicators measuring online censorship, politicization of social media, coordinated information operations, foreign influence, monitoring of domestic politics, and regime cyber capacity...
We have a new paper out in the Journal of Information Technology and Politics. It "introduces" (we're now on v5) the DSP dataset. This is expert survey data collected as part of the annual V-Dem survey. The paper provides an overview and does some validation. doi.org/10.1080/1933...
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