Multi-Platform Social Media Data Donation Behavior Dataset

Abstract

This repository contains the dataset used for all analyses presented in the papers:

\ [Study 1] Wedel, L., Ohme, J., Mayer, A. T., Gaisbauer, F., & Fan, Y. (2025). The platform matters: cross-platform differences in data donation willingness, behavior, and bias. Communication Methods and Measures, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2605946 \ [Study 2] Wedel, L., Ohme, J. (2026). Longitudinal Data Donation Behavior and Data Omission across Four Social Media Platforms. Computational Communications Research [accepted for publication]

The repository is structured into two directories, one for the data and code for each study. The directory “Study 1” contains the study data as a .csv file and a PDF with a variable overview. The directory “Study 2” contains four .csv files, the Jupyter notebook code for the analysis in the paper, and a PDF file giving a quick overview of each file. Here, the Jupyter notebook also serves also as an explanation file. Folder contents ├─ RepositoryOverview.pdf ├─ Study 1 │ ├─ data-donation-behaviour-dataset.csv │ └─ study_one_readme.pdf └─ Study 2 ├─ analysis.ipynb ├─ figures │ ├─ mean_omission_fractions.png │ ├─ omissions_per_trace_horizontal_barplots_2x2_sorted.png │ ├─ omission_vs_donor.png │ └─ omitters_across_waves_relative.png ├─ omission_overview_wave_1.csv ├─ omission_overview_wave_2.csv ├─ study_two_readme.pdf ├─ survey_wave_1_REPRO.csv └─ survey_wave_2_REPRO.csv