Corpus of political tweets UK-EU-DEBATE-20-21
Creators
- 1. Università della Svizzera italiana
- 2. Université de Lille
Description
The UK-EU-DEBATE-20-21 corpus was collected within the framework of the collaborative research project OLiNDiNUM (Observatoire LINguistique du DIscours NUMérique / Linguistic Observatory of Online Debate) to be part of a shared research archive of shared corpora and resources.
The corpus was selected with a view to examining the UK-EU media debate on the COVID-19 vaccination campaign following a specific transformative moment: the signature of the Brexit withdrawal agreement by the UK and the EU at the end of January 2021.
The data were retrieved through the Application Programming Interface of the social networking site Twitter, using the accounts of key political actors in the UK government and EU institutions over a period of 14 months (1 February 2020–31 March 2021). The composition of the corpus is illustrated in the table.
| Political Actor | Role | Account | Tweets |
| Boris Johnson | UK Prime Minister | @BorisJohnson | 1186 |
| Dominic R. Raab | UK Foreign Secretary | @DominicRaab | 1468 |
| Priti Patel | UK Home Secretary | @pritipatel | 941 |
| Ursula von der Leyen | President of the European Commission | @vonderleyen | 1338 |
| David Sassoli | President of the European Parliament | @EP_President | 554 |
| Charles Michel | President of the Council of the European Union | @eucopresident | 675 |
The data are supplied in separate .csv files (tab-delimited format). Each row contains the text of the tweet (data__text) and the tweet identifier (data__id) as a header. The tweet identifier enables swift retrieval of the original tweet by searching https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/data__id.
Files
EN-EU-Michel_textonly_ALL.csv
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Additional details
References
- Caliendo, G (2022). Vaccine Nationalism or 'Brexit Dividend'? Strategies of Legitimation in the EU-UK Post-Brexit Debate on COVID-19 Vaccination Campaigns. Societies, 12.