155 datasets found

Social media is a transformative digital technology, collapsing the "six degrees of separation" which have previously characterised many social networks, and breaking down many...

Interactions on social media have the potential to help us to understand human behaviour, including the development of both good and poor mental health. However, to do the best...

This data collection contains transcripts of interviews carried out with experienced human rights investigators. Throughout these semi-structured interviews, participants were...

This dataset compares different media sources reporting on violent events, using the 2017 Kenyan elections as a case study. It compares reports generated through traditional...

This dataset was collected as part of a project evaluating the effect of a number of predictors on the likelihood of individuals onward-sharing of disinformation on social media...

In order to develop appropriate tools (e.g. a mobile app) we explored through a participant survey the issues such as the kinds of media coverage that engage and inform voters,...

This data set contains two experimental studies, the studies investigated how perceived information sources would affect readers' decision making about belief and feeling while...

This is data collected throughout 2017 and 2019 which contains one of a selection of hashtags related to Brexit. The data only contains the tweet id's. The data was collected in...

The project explores conversations occurring on Twitter concerned with the passage through Parliament of the Trade Union Bill in 2015/16. The bill was the subject of a good deal...

We collected all tweets containing the hashtags relating to the strike action (#AllEyesonTGIs, #TGIStrikeDays and #TGIFairPay) over a period of four months. The All Eyes on TGIs...

The Fast Food Shutdown project was developed as a response to a forthcoming day of action organised by the Independent Workers of the World union on the 10th October 2018. We...

The 'McStrike' project was developed as a response to a forthcoming strike by McDonald's employees in the UK on the 4th September 2017, organised by the Bakers, Food and Allied...

Transcripts of qualitative interviews with young adults and professional online content producers exploring young people's engagement with health information online and on...

Data collected from Twitter social media platform (6 May 2018 - 16 May 2018) to explore the potential role of social media data in responding to new and emerging forms of food...

Data collected from Twitter social media platform (10 Nov 2017 - 18 Dec 2017) to explore causes of self-reported foodborne illnesses on social media from posts originating in...

Data collected from Twitter social media platform (5 Aug 2017 - 28 Aug 2017) to explore general food hygiene discourse and attitudes to the differing food hygiene information...

Data collected from Twitter social media platform (8 June 2018 - 22 June 2018) to study reports of food fraud related to fish products on social media from posts originating in...

This dataset compares different media sources reporting on violent events, using the 2017 Kenyan elections as a case study. It compares reports generated through traditional...

We collected Twitter posts that are topically related to three selected elections: the 2015 Venezuela parliamentary election, 2016 Philippines general election and 2016 Ghana...

Transcripts of fieldwork interviews with professionals involved in the governance of social media communications. These interviews involve professionals revealing how the...