Swedish online news articles 2014-2015

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Description:

The study contains news articles which have been shared on Facebook and Twitter over time.

Subject area:

MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Principal organisation:

University of Gothenburg

Accessibility status:

Access to data through SND
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Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Identifiers:

SND-ID: SND 1004

Purpose:

To study what news articles are shared on Facebook and Twitter over time.

Description:

The study contains news articles which have been shared on Facebook and Twitter over time.

Time period(s) investigated:

2014-02-08 — ongoing

Geographic spread:

Geographic location: Sweden

Unit of analysis:

Time Method:

Sampling procedure:

Total universe/Complete enumeration
All news articles (news, editorials, debate articles, culture articles) from the news sites RSS feeds were included. Sports and entertainment were excluded. Custom software was used.

Subject area:

MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

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Version 1.0:

2017-01-12 doi:10.5878/002853

News content dataset

Citation:

Peter Dahlgren (2017). News content dataset. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002853

Description:

This dataset contains 953,069 news articles (title, URL, social shares) from the 12 largest Swedish news sites during 20 months, from February 2014 to October 2015.

Data format / data structure:

Text

Data collection:

Time period(s) for data collection: 2014-02-08 — 2015-10-01

Source of the data: Communications: Public

Time period(s) investigated:

2014-02-08 — 2015-10-01

Variables:

20

Number of individuals/objects:

953069