SNS Comments data — snscomments • tidycomm

A dataset of 630 German participants in an online experiment. The experiment investigated the effects of user comments on social network sites (SNS) on individuals' perceptions of journalistic quality. The researchers varied the subject of the article (factor 1: 'Copyright directive' or 'Social housing'), the order of comment presentation (factor 2: before or after the article) and the valence of the comments (factor 3: positive or negative).

snscomments

Format

A data frame of 630 observations and 15 variables:

age: Age of the participant
gender: Gender of the participant, either 'female' or 'not female'
education: Level of formal education of the participant, either 'low formal education' or 'high formal education'
need_cognition: Index measuring the psychological trait of a person to enjoy thinking, calculated from several survey items
prior_knowledge: Index measuring a person's prior knowledge of the presented subject of the article, calculated from several survey items
group: Numeric id of the group that the participant was in during the experiment
issue: Subject of the article that the participant was given to read, either 'Copyright directive' or 'Social housing'
order: Order of the comments that the participant was exposed to, either 'Comments after', 'Comments before', or 'Control group'
valence: Valence of the comments that the participant was exposed to, either 'Negative', 'Positive', or 'Control group'
control_group: Indicates whether the participant was in the 'Control group' or 'Experimental group'
medium_evaluation: Index measuring participant's evaluation of the medium's quality, calculated from several survey items
article_evaluation: Index measuring participant's evaluation of the article's quality, calculated from several survey items
comments_quality: Participant's perception of the quality of the comments
comments_valence: Participant's perception of the valence of the comments
article_elaboration: Participant's measure of how much attention they put in reading the article

Source

https://osf.io/r867v/

Details

This dataset was created from the OSF project: https://osf.io/r867v/, corresponding to the paper: Kümpel, A. S., & Unkel, J. (2020). Negativity wins at last: How presentation order and valence of user comments affect perceptions of journalistic quality. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 32(2), 89–99. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000261