Followers of suicide-related and school shooting virtual communities: basic demographics and network data

Published: 27 February 2024| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/gjt33vkm6j.1
Contributors:
, Galina Serbina,
, Sergey Chudinov

Description

This data were collected in the study on suicide-related and school shooting virtual communities based on social media monitoring system search. Only anonymized user data from the largest European social networking site (vk.com) were collected. The dataset includes demographic profiles of virtual communities’ followers (sex, age, and geographical location) and a type of a community their followed. In addition, data on network charachteristics are also provided

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Steps to reproduce

Algorithm for data analysis and its reproducing will be published in the forthcoming research article 'Suicide-related groups and school shooting fan communities on social media: a network analysis' by Peshkovskaya, Chudinov, Serbina & Gubanov in Computers.

Institutions

Tomskij gosudarstvennyj universitet

Categories

Social Media, Social Network Analysis, Virtual Community, Suicide, Network Analysis, Social Network

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