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RightwingLinks 1.1

GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1815
Abstract: RightWingLinks is a dataset comprised of 85,792 links to web pages on 4,538 different pay-level domains, which we extracted from 82,109 comments by 33,651 users on the public Facebook pages of the major established German political parties, the AfD party and the rightwing protest movement Pegida in the year 2015. The data is aggregated and contains synthetic identifiers.
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Methodology

Notes: column (1) "page": the Facebook page from which we retrieved the comment: (DieLinke, DieGruenen, SPD, CDU, AfD, Pegida, NPD) column (2) "week": the week of the year (1 to 53) in which the comment containing the link was created. column (3) "post_id": a synthetic identifier for the post on which the comment of this link was made (unrelated to its re ... more

Bibliographic information

Primärforschende, Institution: Schelter, Sebastian; New York University
Publication year: 2019
DOI: 10.7802/1815
Study number: SDN-10.7802-1815
Publisher: GESIS, Cologne

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1815

Reference publications

Publications: Sebastian Schelter, Felix Biessmann, Malisa Zobel, Nedelina Teneva. Structural Patterns in the Rise of Germany’s New Right on Facebook. Data Mining in Politics workshop at the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2016.

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