#MeToo Facebook and Twitter posts_September and November 2021_Southern Europe

Description

This data consists of social media posts from Twitter and Facebook related to gender discussions and the #MeToo movement across Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Each post is classified by country, actor type (political, media, other), and associated with specific keywords or themes (e.g., "woman", "law", "vote", "education", "sexism"). A word cloud illustrates the most frequent terms within each Southern European country's dataset.

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The data were collected from Facebook and Twitter/X between 1 September and 30 November 2021. Posts were extracted using CrowdTangle for Facebook and the Twitter Bulk Downloader API v2 for Twitter. Only posts containing pre-selected gender-related keywords (such as violence, harassment, femicide, feminism, rights, and law) were included to ensure thematic relevance. The dataset initially captured general gender-related discourse across Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece, and a subset explicitly mentioning "#MeToo" was isolated for focused analysis. The data were then processed and thematically coded using MAXQDA software, which was also employed to generate word clouds based on word frequency analysis. To standardize the thematic categories, a process of word thematization (grouping lexical variants) was applied. The method allows both for the reproducibility of the sampling protocol and structured cross-national comparison of online discourse.

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