Torrential Twitter? Investigating the Severity of Harassment when Canadian Female Politicians Tweet about Climate Change

Overview of Paper

This paper analyzes Tweets which specifically discuss climate change from former MP Catherine McKenna, MP Elizabeth May, and MP Laurel Collins to investigate the severity of harassment on a seven-point scale and type of accounts behind the Tweets.

File Structure

The repo is structured as the following:

• Inputs contains some of the literature consulted and the files used to generate the Codebook, as well as the PDF of the Codebook to code the Tweets.

• Outputs contains the files used to generate the paper, including the Quarto document, bibliography file, model, and the PDF of the paper.

• Scripts contains the R scripts used to simulate, clean, validate, and model the data.

Note on Data

The raw and cleaned datasets cannot be uploaded to GitHub. Please contact Inessa (inessa.deangelis@mail.utoronto.ca) to access the datasets.