Attitudinally-positioned European sample dataset

These files provide a dataset of attitudinally positioned populations of social media users in Europe. Building on recent advancements on large-scale multi-dimensional political attitude inference in social networks and text, we show how to create a European sample of attitudinally-positioned users along a Left-Right and a Anti-elite dimension measuring attitudes towards elites and trust in institutions. These two dimensions are shown to be relevant to conduct both traditional political analysis on social media and analyses accounting for new forms of polarization related to democratic backsliding. This dataset of users will serve as a frame of reference for the development of case studies exploring different links between activity in online platforms, evidence and impacts in politics in other tasks of the project.

本数据集提供了一份欧洲社交媒体用户态度定位样本集。基于近期在社交网络和文本中的大规模多维度政治态度推断技术取得的进展，本文展示了如何构建一个沿左-右翼和反精英维度衡量对精英态度及对机构信任的欧洲用户样本。这两个维度被证明对于进行社交媒体的传统政治分析和考虑到民主倒退相关新形式极化的分析均具有重要意义。此用户数据集将为开发案例研究提供参考框架，旨在探讨在线平台活动、证据以及政治影响等不同关联，并在项目其他任务中发挥重要作用。