Supporting data for: "Does ‘State Endorser’ Work? Evaluating the Reach of Pro-CCP YouTubers Beyond Chinese State Media"
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posted on 2022-04-11, 05:13 authored by Marie BroecklingMarie Broeckling, Haohan HuHaohan Hu, King Wa FuKing Wa FuPurpose
Supporting data for the paper "Does ‘State Endorser’ Work? Evaluating the Reach of Pro-CCP YouTubers Beyond Chinese State Media", which will be presented at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference on 26-30 May 2022.
What is inside
The dataset contains the code and (raw) data used in the project, as well as all the resulting graphics.
Chinese officials on Twitter
We compiled a list of 401 Chinese official Twitter accounts, including government and state media accounts, by scraping profile labels. To our knowledge it is the most complete list of Chinese officials on Twitter at the moment. It is included in the dataset in the folder "results". Please feel free to use it for your project, but make sure to cite the paper.