Social Media Dataset of Covid-aware Publics

This is a dataset of tweets by and about COVID-aware publics from the 'X' (Twitter) social media platform collected by the author. The dataset consists of 344 textual tweets regarding COVID-related material practices gathered during the research period Jan 2023 - Sep 2024, yet the dataset also includes tweets created before this date.

The textual data has been rewritten to fully anonymise the people who made the tweets, and identifiable contexts have been removed. In addition, all date/time metadata and hashtags, as well as any attached images, have been removed. Square brackets have been used for editorial edits to obfuscate entities or add context to tweets. The dataset consists of a structured comma-separated text file that can be read in any spreadsheet software to maximise accessibility.

The research dataset was created with Open university HREC approval: HREC/4557/Nold