Data for "Media framing of spiders may exacerbate arachnophobic sentiments"

Dataset used for the analysis of the paper: Mammola, S., Nanni, V., Pantini, P., & Isaia, M. (2020). Media framing of spiders may exacerbate arachnophobic sentiments. People and Nature https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10143 An excel (.xlsx) and a tab-delimited (.csv) version of the database are both provided. The columns are: a) Link to the article (url). All accessed between January and March 2020; b) News ID, the identifier for each media report was obtained (“Event_ID”), by combining location and year of the event (e.g., “Terni_2018”);d) journal name; e) journal circulation (‘Regional’ or ‘National”);f–h) Date of publication – day (d), month (m), year (y);i) Title;j) spider species as it was mentioned in the media report (even if the species attribution was incorrect based on indirect evidence),k) year of the event;l) location of the event; m–n) coordinates of the location, in WGS84 decimal degrees; o–p) type of event (“encounter”, “bite”, or “deadly bite”) ;q) presence/absence of photographs of the spider; r) presence/absence of photographs of the bite; s–v) assessment of sensationalism by three authors (SM, VP, MI) and consensus;w) possible mention of an expert-opinion (doctor, arachnologist, or general biologist);x–ab) Classification of errors;ac) number of total share of facebook;ad) notes. See main text for more details.