unciviltweets {grafzahl}

A Corpus Of Tweets With Incivility Labels

Description

This is a dataset from the paper "The Dynamics of Political Incivility on Twitter". The tweets were by Members of Congress elected to the 115th Congress (2017–2018). It is important to note that not all the incivility labels were coded by human. Majority of the labels were coded by the Google Perspective API. All mentions were removed. The dataset is available from Pablo Barbera's Github. https://github.com/pablobarbera/incivility-sage-open

Usage

unciviltweets

Format

An object of class corpus (inherits from character) of length 19982.

References

Theocharis, Y., Barberá, P., Fazekas, Z., & Popa, S. A. (2020). The dynamics of political incivility on Twitter. Sage Open, 10(2), 2158244020919447.