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Replication Data for: Mapping online political talks through network analysis: a case study of the website of Italy’s Five Star Movement
No full textUnderstanding relations among online users involved in political discussions can help us understand similarities and differences with corresponding offline interactions. Online communities generally demonstrate too high a level of homophily among users
to be illustrative. But online political discussions do not necessarily prevent diversity of opinions. The discussion Forum of Italy’s Five Star Movement provides an interesting case study because of the diverse political orientations of participants and the wide range of discussion topics. I apply network analysis to map in detail the relations among the Forum’s users to unravel network characteristics and actor behaviours. After harvesting 86,943 discussions and 461,297 comments published by 84,203 unique users, I capture features of the network topology to understand: whether users participate in various discussions; if discussions fragment in multiple threads showing assortative mixing tendencies; and if comments concentrate around few discussions approaching a power-law distribution. This paper aims to improve understanding of the argumentative political discourse, but has also applications for political institutions interested in enhancing computer-mediated public reasoning
Replication Data for: Connecting through the void: Distress, participation and the electoral success of the Five Star Movement
No full textThis article offers a theoretical and empirical explanation for the role played by Internet-organised meetups in the dramatic rise of the Five Star Movement, which created in 2009 obtained respectively 25 and 32\% in the Italian general elections in 2013 and 2018. The article uses metadata from 234,000 meetings along with electoral, census and survey data to empirically support a theoretical model that sees the diffusion of Internet-organised onsite events as functional in increasing the frequency of political talks which then positively affects voting for the Movement. The article identifies very low levels of political trust -- the \emph{void} distancing people from parties -- a critical factor facilitating both political participation and political talks among the Movement's voters. Social capital, as locally measured, is not observed to be an essential provider of organisation resources for the emergence of local forms of participation in support of the Movement. This suggests that Internet technologies can facilitate the rise of new political movements by offering a communication and organisation platform that compensates the limited access to resources offered by the mainstream media and by established and diffused organisation networks
Replication Data for: Social capital, Internet capital and the recruitment networks of political movements: A theoretical and empirical approach
No full textThis paper presents the analysis of the recruitment network of Italy's Five Star Movement. A recruitment network with 8132 nodes is drawn among users comparing the date users joined Meetup.com and the date users established mutual Facebook friendships. This paper provides empirical evidence that social capital is significant in explaining the structural differences in the social networks of members but not the territorial success of the diffusion. The paper proposes a theoretical network model to explain the role played by social capital in the diffusion process and by the Internet in bridging possible deficiencies in the endowments of social capital.
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Historical Information System of Territorial Administrations | sistat.istat.it
No full textHistorical Information System of (Italian) Territorial Administrations curated and published by Istat
Replication Data for: Connecting through the void: Distress, participation and the electoral success of the Five Star Movement
No full textThis article offers a theoretical and empirical explanation for the role played by Internet-organised meetups in the dramatic rise of the Five Star Movement, which created in 2009 obtained respectively 25 and 32\% in the Italian general elections in 2013 and 2018. The article uses metadata from 234,000 meetings along with electoral, census and survey data to empirically support a theoretical model that sees the diffusion of Internet-organised onsite events as functional in increasing the frequency of political talks which then positively affects voting for the Movement. The article identifies very low levels of political trust -- the \emph{void} distancing people from parties -- a critical factor facilitating both political participation and political talks among the Movement's voters. Social capital, as locally measured, is not observed to be an essential provider of organisation resources for the emergence of local forms of participation in support of the Movement. This suggests that Internet technologies can facilitate the rise of new political movements by offering a communication and organisation platform that compensates the limited access to resources offered by the mainstream media and by established and diffused organisation networks
Replication Data for: The citizen-user and the crowd-mediated politics of the Five Star Movement
No full textThis thesis described the trajectory of the M5S (2005-2014) from the perspective of the citizens who, as Internet users, participated in in the political enterprise. Citizen-users, enabled and empowered by Internet and mobile technologies, sustained the evolution of the movement that ended up being the Five Star Movement (M5S) and shaped its identity. The case study selected for this research, the M5S, is somehow exceptional for the magnitude of its success but its features (Internet-centered and fluid ideology) are not uncommon anymore in political organisations of Western democracies. The goal of the thesis is dual: assessing the impact that the Internet can have on the political process by connecting, mobilising and organising, and characterising the shape of the political talk among users. The thesis applies quantitative methods, including network analysis and natural language processing, on 10 years of user-generated data collected mainly from the blog of the Movement's founder, the M5S official forum, Facebook and Meetup.com. I find that the online discussion fora fostered diversity without fragmentation and contributed in at least one occasion to shape the policy agenda of the M5S. Also, over the years, meetups of the Movement maintained their capacity to attract and mobilise users and their territorial distribution clearly correlate with the local electoral results of the M5S in two elections suggesting a positive electoral impact of Internet-enabled mobilisation. Finally, given the votes received in the general election, the political communication generated over the Internet might have offset the low attention dedicated by TV news broadcast to the Movement during the electoral campaign. Yet no stable community emerged from the online interactions of users but instead a crowd characterised by high volatility and low autonomy from leadership figures
Replication Data for: Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement
No full textWORKING IN PROGRESS. Please in the meanwhile refer to this dataset: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NN0TS
Le parole per ferire (Italian hate words)
No full textList of Italian hate words curated by Tullio de Mauro. Words were scraped from this webpage (persistent link)
Opinion polling for the next Italian general election | wikidata.org/wiki/Q54437087
No full textOpinion polling for the next Italian general election collected from Wikipedia. Code and details on GitHub: github.com/ScrapeOpen/Opinion-polling-for-the-next-Italian-general-election
Historical Archive of Elections | elezionistorico.interno.gov.it
No full textHistorical archive of Italian elections published by Italy's Ministry of Interior scraped from elezionistorico.interno.gov.it.
Code and details on GitHub: github.com/ScrapeOpen/elezionistorico.interno.gov.it
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