P1SCO: New Dataset Captures Social Media Perceptions Across Platforms and Demographics
Researchers have introduced P1SCO, a dataset of social media comments from three platforms annotated with ten social dimensions to capture diverse social interactions and perceptions. The dataset includes rich metadata on annotators, including demographics, personality profiles, and political affiliation, enabling analysis of how social perception varies across individuals and platforms. This resource supports research into how personality, politics, and demographics influence interpretation of social discourse.
P1SCO is a newly released dataset comprising social media comments collected from three distinct platforms, each annotated according to ten social dimensions designed to capture the diversity of social interactions and perceptions. Beyond comment-level annotations, the dataset includes extensive annotator metadata such as demographic information, Big Five personality profiles, and political affiliation. The careful disaggregation of data allows researchers to analyze patterns at multiple levels: individual comments, annotators, and platforms. This combination of features enables nuanced investigations into inter- and intra-annotator agreement, the influence of personality and political orientation on social interpretation, and how social discourse dynamics differ across platforms. The dataset's preservation of diverse annotator perspectives makes it a resource for understanding how individual differences shape the interpretation of social media content.
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P1SCO: Social Dimensions from a Perspectivist Lens
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