Dataset for "On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities"
Creators
- 1. Cyprus University of Technology
- 2. University College London
- 3. University of Alabama at Birmingham
- 4. Boston University
- 5. King's College London
Description
This dataset is obsolete because the Twitter pHashes were incompatible with all the other pHashes in the dataset due to a version mismatch of the ImageHash Python library.
Please download the updated dataset here: https://zenodo.org/record/3699670
This dataset was collected with research funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No 691025.
The publication on which this dataset was used is: "On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities". Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, and Guillermo Suarez-Tangil. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2018., DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323551
The dataset consists of all the URLs and phashes for images from Twitter, Reddit, 4chan's /pol/, and Gab posted between July 2016 and end of July 2017.
The code related to this research can be found here: https://github.com/memespaper/memes_pipeline, or here: https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.1463050
Presentation available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1477082
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