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The Reddit Politosphere: A Large-Scale Text and Network Resource of Online Political Discourse

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Valentin Hofmann,Hinrich Schütze,Janet B. Pierrehumbert

University of Oxford LMU Munich,LMU Munich,University of Oxford


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Vol. 16 (2022): Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

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We introduce the Reddit Politosphere, a large-scale resource of online political discourse covering more than 600 political discussion groups over a period of 12 years. It is to the best of our knowledge the largest and ideologically most comprehensive dataset of its type now available. One key feature of the Reddit Politosphere is that it consists of both text and network data, allowing for methodologically-diverse analyses. We describe in detail how we create the Reddit Politosphere, present descriptive statistics, and sketch potential directions for future research based on the resource.

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10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19377


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Vol. 16 (2022): Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media