These codebooks were developed as part of a study titled "Academic explanatory journalism and emerging COVID-19 science: How social media accounts amplify The Conversation’s preprint coverage" (published in Media International Australia with co-authors Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess). They can be used to analyze the nature of publicly available Twitter and Facebook accounts in terms of the type of account (e.g., individual, group, etc) and the type of actor group (e.g., academia, healthcare, political actor, etc).  (...)
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