Extinction Rebellion Finland (Elokapina) Post-Repression Twitter Activity and Network Patterns

<p><strong>Overview</strong></p> <p>This repository contains two time series data sets of activity levels and network patterns on Finnish climate Twitter for the period of July 18, 2020 to February 11, 2022. First, there is a day-level data set (574 days) containing Twitter activity levels of climate activists and non-activists. Second, there is a week-level data set (81 weeks) containing estimated coefficients for various network effects from exponential random graph models (ERGM) fit to retweet networks.</p> <p>For details, including definitions of activist/non-activist and the ERGM specifications, please see the referenced work: "Social Media Affordances Sustain Social Movements Facing Repression: Evidence from Climate Activism", detailed below.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Data Set Details</strong></p> <p>`raw_daily_counts.csv` contains the following variables at the day level.</p> <ul> <li><em>date</em>: from 2020-07-25 to 2022-02-11</li> <li><em>activity_activist</em>: the daily activity count of activist users on Finnish climate Twitter</li> <li><em>activity_nonactivist</em>: the daily activity count of non-activist users on Finnish climate Twitter</li> <li><em>users_activist</em>: the daily count of activist users on Finnish climate Twitter</li> <li><em>users_nonactivist</em>: the daily count of non-activist users on Finnish climate Twitter</li> </ul> <p>`weekly_ERGM_coefficients.csv` contains a subset of estimated coefficients from ERGMs of weekly retweet networks from Finnish climate Twitter. The data set contains the following variables (coefficients), not all of which are from the same model specification.</p> <ul> <li><em>week</em>: starting with week 2 (2020-07-25 to 2020-07-31) and ending with week 82 (2022-02-05 to 2022-02-11)</li> <li><em>political_activity_activist</em>: activists retweeting politically relevant users</li> <li><em>political_activity_nonactivist</em>: non-activists retweeting politically relevant users</li> <li><em>gwidegree0_activist</em>: geometrically weighted in-degree (decay = 0) for the activist subnetwork</li> <li><em>gwidegree0_nonactivist</em>: geometrically weighted in-degree (decay = 0) for the non-activist subnetwork</li> <li><em>gwidegree0_activistsub_thresh3</em>: geometrically weighted in-degree (decay = 0) for the activist subnetwork with an activity level requirement for activists</li> <li><em>gwidegree0_activistsub_thresh4</em>: geometrically weighted in-degree (decay = 0) for the activist subnetwork with an activity level requirement for activists</li> <li><em>gwidegree0_activistsub_thresh5</em>: geometrically weighted in-degree (decay = 0) for the activist subnetwork with an activity level requirement for activists</li> <li><em>gwidegree0_activistsub_thresh6</em>: geometrically weighted in-degree (decay = 0) for the activist subnetwork with an activity level requirement for activists</li> <li><em>gwidegree0_activistsub_thresh7</em>: geometrically weighted in-degree (decay = 0) for the activist subnetwork with an activity level requirement for activists</li> <li><em>gwidegree0_activistsub_thresh8</em>: geometrically weighted in-degree (decay = 0) for the activist subnetwork with an activity level requirement for activists</li> <li><em>gwidegree0_activistsub_thresh9</em>: geometrically weighted in-degree (decay = 0) for the activist subnetwork with an activity level requirement for activists</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p>Please reference the original study when using this data set.<br>Savolainen, Sonja, Ville P. Saarinen, and Ted Hsuan Yun Chen. 2024. &ldquo;Social Media Affordances Sustain Social Movements Facing Repression: Evidence from Climate Activism.&rdquo; <a href="https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/p4yvk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doi:10.31235/osf.io/p4yvk</a>.</p>