Replication Data for: Measuring Political Narratives in African News Media: A Word Embeddings Approach (doi:10.7910/DVN/ZA6YEN)

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Replication Data for: Measuring Political Narratives in African News Media: A Word Embeddings Approach

doi:10.7910/DVN/ZA6YEN

Harvard Dataverse

2023-07-12

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Shen-Bayh, Fiona; Kitagawa, Risa, 2023, "Replication Data for: Measuring Political Narratives in African News Media: A Word Embeddings Approach", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZA6YEN, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:mw45jNSEAX1mrMPOCahyXg== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: Measuring Political Narratives in African News Media: A Word Embeddings Approach

doi:10.7910/DVN/ZA6YEN

Shen-Bayh, Fiona (University of Maryland)

Kitagawa, Risa (Northwestern University)

Harvard Dataverse

The Journal of Politics Dataverse

Shen-Bayh, Fiona

Shen-Bayh, Fiona

2023-06-22

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZA6YEN

Social Sciences, international courts, media, text-as-data, Africa

Recent advances in text-as-data provide new opportunities to document how elites shape public discourse on contentious issues. Using a novel word embeddings approach to measure elite-driven political narratives in local news, we analyze Kenyan newspaper coverage of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutions against domestic leaders. We train our embeddings on an original corpus of 5,292 Kenyan newspaper articles from 2007-2020 and identify significant changes in how local media vilifies the ICC before, during, and after major investigations. We find that as the case progressed, the ICC became more strongly associated with terms of bias and illegitimacy, an association which quickly dissipated after the Court terminated its last proceeding. Our approach illustrates the utility of text-based measures of political sentiment on contentious issues, with implications for research on media narratives, the effects of controversial jurisprudence on public discourse, and backlash against international institutions.

• Number of cases: 5292

• No. of variables per record: 22

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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• headline - headline
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• publisher - publisher
• body - body
• url - url
• icc - icc
• opinion - opinion
• author_name - author_name
• author_type - author_type
• leaning - leaning
• noticc - noticc
• Notes - Notes
• ir_opinion - ir_opinion
• ir_author_name - ir_author_name
• ir_author_type - ir_author_type
• ir_leaning - ir_leaning
• ir_noticc - ir_noticc
• ir_notes - ir_notes
• year - year
• month - month

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