Digital History meets Microblogging

In this article, we present a dataset containing history-related content obtained from social media. It contains hashtags and tweets that include these hashtags, as well as the results of third party tools applied to the tweets that include extracted entities, years, and url categories, and the categories for the history-related hashtags we used to crawl the tweets. We collected the tweets from Twitter official API using hashtag-based crawling. The crawling process had been performed from March 2016 to July 2018. During the crawling, we applied a bootstrapping approach which is an iterative process of collecting tweets using a small set of seed hashtags, and a manual inspection of newly acquired hashtags that co-occur with the seed hashtags to include those they are related to history. Finally, we collected 147 history-related hashtags and 2,370,252 tweets. We then defined 6 categories for the collected hashtags after their manual investigation. The presented dataset could be useful for further analysis on how people refer to history in Twitter, for collecting new history-related tweets, for training classifiers to detect history-related tweets, or for further investigations of the proposed hashtag categories.

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“…Hashtag Category Definition . The hashtag categories are defined from manual investigation of a large sample of collected tweets [3 , 4] .…”

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Annotated dataset of history-related tweets

Sumikawa

Jatowt

2021

Data in Brief

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“…Consider that one way that collective memory can be a institution is to set so-295 cial rules concerning memorial services during anniversaries (see Danieli (1998) and our introduction). Recent studies suggest that social media platforms, such as Twitter, can provide valuable resources for analyzing social memory as places to make public memorial services, as exposed by Sumikawa et al (2018). It is possible to argue that there might be a potential bias towards younger users 300 1 As robustness test, Appendix B presents also the number of monuments as a supply source of collective memory, as suggested by Ochsner & Roesel (2017).…”

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Collective Memory and Democratic Mobilization: Insights from Chile's Constitutional Revolution (2019-2023)

Martins

2024

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This article investigates the lasting impact of historical-political tragedies on current political behavior, focusing on Chile’s Estallido Social protests (2019- 2020) and the Constituent Plebiscite (2020-2023). Using social media data to analyze political memory, the study suggests that protests serve as a strategic engagement tool in municipalities with vivid recollections of past violence from the Pinochet dictatorship. Least squares analyses show that municipalities with pre-1970 military bases had heightened protest activity but reduced constitutional voting involvement, without a clear political coalition bias. The 2SLS estimations link this to the long-term effects of political victimization during Pinochet’s regime and social media remembrance of the 1973 coup violence. The evidence suggests that while collective memories of political violence may encourage active protest participation, they can also weaken the relationship between voters and political elites, influencing voting behavior

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“…Measuring the role of social memory, which is defined as the collective recollection of past events, can be challenging. Nevertheless, recent studies 585 suggest that social media platforms, such as Twitter, can provide valuable resources for analyzing social memory, as exposed by Sumikawa et al (2018) 7 .…”

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Collective Memory and Democratic Mobilization: Insights from Chile's Constitutional Revolution (2019-2023)

Martins

2024

Preprint

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This article investigates the enduring impact of historical-political tragedies on current political behavior, focusing on Chile's ``Estallido Social" protests (2019-2020) and the Constituent Plebiscite (2020-2023). Utilizing social media data to analyze political memory, the study contends that protests serve as a strategic engagement tool in municipalities with vivid recollections of past violence, such as Chile's era of institutional violence under Pinochet. LS analyses indicate that Chilean municipalities with pre-1970 military bases experienced heightened protest activity but showed reduced involvement in constitutional voting, without a clear lean towards any political coalition. The 2SLS estimations link this phenomenon to the long-term effects of political victimization during Pinochet's regime and the social media remembrance on the 1973 coup violence. The evidence suggests that while collective memories on political violence may encourage active protest participation, it can also weaken the relationship between voters and political elites, influencing voting behavior.

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Digital History meets Microblogging

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Annotated dataset of history-related tweets

Annotated dataset of history-related tweets

Collective Memory and Democratic Mobilization: Insights from Chile's Constitutional Revolution (2019-2023)

Collective Memory and Democratic Mobilization: Insights from Chile's Constitutional Revolution (2019-2023)

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