Supporting data for "Online Rumor as Hyper-Improvised Participatory Theatre: A Case Study of Hong Kong”

This dataset includes two types of data, namely online social media entries, and interview transcripts with young adults in Hong Kong who have experiences in participating in or viewing online rumors.

The dataset was derived from a PhD research that adopted an qualitative online ethnographic case stduy appraoch to study the pandemic-control rumors in Hong Kong by focusing on two cases, through collecting online documents for document analysis and in-depth interviews. Both online documents and interviews were retrieved or conducted from 2020 to 2022 by the author for his PhD research.

The online documents (social media entries) revolved around online users' comments, reactions, and replies about a certain rumor in Hong Kong. The interviews covered the research subjects' actual experiences of engaging in such rumors, their perceptions of such rumors, and their subjective understandings of or opinions about the online rumors in Hong Kong in general.

本数据集包含两种类型的数据，即在线社交媒体条目以及与香港年轻人在参与或观看网络谣言方面的访谈记录。该数据集源自一项博士研究，该研究采用了定性的在线民族志案例研究方法，以聚焦于两个案例来探讨香港的疫情控制谣言。作者通过收集2020年至2022年间的在线文档进行文献分析及深度访谈，获取了这些在线文档和访谈资料。在线文档（社交媒体条目）涉及网络用户针对特定香港谣言的评论、反应及回复。访谈内容涵盖了研究对象参与此类谣言的实际经历、对谣言的认知，以及他们对香港网络谣言的总体主观理解或观点。