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

The Reddit Politosphere is a large-scale resource of online political discourse covering more than 600 political discussion groups over a period of 12 years. Based on the Pushshift Reddit Dataset, 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. We also release annotated metadata for subreddits and users. Documentation and scripts for easy data access are provided in an associated repository on GitHub.

Related Organizations

University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Germany

Keywords

reddit, computational social science, political discussion

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