[Air-L] Open data access - Chinese weibo

[KW Fu]

Dear AOIRers,

 

We are delighted to make open access our Chinese weibo data collected in
2012 (over 226 million Chinese microblogs). The dataset consists of a large
amount of deleted and censored posts that are no longer available in the
public domain. For ethical reason, all data are anonymized, i.e. real user
and message id are replaced by pseudo ID.

 

http://147.8.142.179/datazip/

 

"Weiboscope" is our project name and is a social media data collection,
visualization, and analysis project developed by the Journalism and Media
Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). The project is funded by
the HKU's Seed Funding Program for Basic Research.

 

Please cite the below paper when using the data.

 

King-wa Fu, CH Chan, Michael Chau. Assessing Censorship on Microblogs in
China: Discriminatory Keyword Analysis and Impact Evaluation of the 'Real
Name Registration' Policy. Internet Computing. IEEE. 2013; 17(3): 42-50.
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2013.28 or
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2265271 (open access)

 

I am glad to give more details about the open access in the forthcoming
Chinese Internet Research Conference on June 15, 2013 at the Oxford Internet
Institute. Conference site: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/china-niw/

 

Regards,

 

King-wa Fu, PhD

Assistant Professor

Journalism and Media Studies Centre

The University of Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 3917-1643

Fax: (852) 2858-8736