PERCEIVE The use of social media in EU policy communication and implications for the emergence of a European public sphere

This data set contains the underlying data of the paper “The use of social media in EU policy communication and implications for the emergence of a European public sphere”, published by The Journal of Regional Research - Investigaciones Regionales (ISSN: 1695-7253; E-ISSN: 2340-2717) in 2019.

Data openly available within this dataset are a subset of the two following data sets, which contains all the relevant data of Work Package 3 and Work Package 5 of PERCEIVE project:

• Data set: “PERCEIVE: WP3: Effectiveness of communication strategies of EU projects” https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3371133
• Data set: “PERCEIVE: WP5: The multiplicity of shared meanings of EU and Cohesion Regional and Urban Policy at different discursive levels” https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3371174

For the paper we collected Facebook posts referred to EU CP policies. We don’t have the permission to share these data (as they are protected by copyright), but all the sources are described in Deliverable 5.2, which is public (see http://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/5726 or http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1318184). We analyzed the textual content of data to construct a database of discursive topics in Task5.4. Data set includes the results of topic modeling and of a sentiment analysis performed on the Facebook homepages of Local Management Authorities (LMA) of PERCEIVE case study regions.