Replication Data for: \"Pursuing Change or Pursuing Credit? Litigation and Credit Claiming on Social Media\"

The below data and code replicates the main and appendix analyses for \"Pursuing Change or Pursuing Credit? Litigation and Credit Claiming on Social Media\" An important caveat to this data: by user agreements, we are unable to share the full text of either the Facebook or tweets. We created a unique identifier (id for Facebook and tweet_id for Twitter) that, alongside the handles/user names, can be used to rehydrate and gather the posts we used for this paper. We are happy to discuss the data limitations and how we gathered the data in more detail. Interest groups often post about their judicial advocacy on social media. We argue that they do so for two main reasons. First, providing information about the courts on social media builds the group’s credibility as a source of information with policymakers, media, and the public. Second, social media provides a way to claim credit for litigation activity and outcomes, which can increase membership and aid in fundraising. Using original datasets of millions of tweets and Facebook posts by interest groups, we provide evidence that interest groups use social media for public education and to credit claim for their litigation activity.下述数据与代码可复现论文《寻求变革还是博取声誉？社交媒体上的诉讼与功劳主张》的主体分析与附录分析。关于本数据集的重要提示：根据平台用户协议，我们无法共享Facebook帖子或推文的完整原文。我们创建了唯一标识符体系：Facebook平台对应id，Twitter平台对应tweet_id，结合账号标识与用户名，可用于还原并获取本论文所使用的全部相关帖子。我们乐于就数据局限性及数据采集的具体细节展开进一步交流。利益集团常会在社交媒体上发布其司法倡导相关内容，我们认为其此举主要出于两大动因：其一，在社交媒体上发布司法相关资讯，可提升该集团作为政策制定者、媒体与公众信息来源的公信力；其二，社交媒体为其就诉讼活动与成果进行功劳主张（credit claiming）提供了渠道，此举可扩大集团成员规模并助力筹款工作。依托由利益集团发布的百万级推文与Facebook帖子构成的原始数据集，我们证实了利益集团会借助社交媒体开展公共教育，并为自身诉讼活动进行功劳主张。