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Online Petitioning Through Data Exploration
and What We Found There:
A Dataset of Petitions from Avaaz.org
Pablo Aragón1,2...

Petitioning
Petition signing is one of
the most popular political
activities with a history
extending back centuries
(Fox ...

Online Petitioning
The low-costs, low-barriers
to entry of online petitions
may bring new people into
the political proces...

Previous data-driven research
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Government platforms
Research using data from government platforms:
● Germany (Jungherr and Jürgens 2010; Lindner
and Rieh...

Global platforms
Research on Change.org has analyzed user
behavior (Huang et al. 2015), success factors
(Elnoshokaty, Deng...

A Dataset of Petitions from Avaaz.org
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Available at
https://dataverse.mpi-sws.org/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5072/...

Structure of the dataset
366 214 petitions retrieved in August 2016 (petition pages
had a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0...

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Data Exploration and What We Found There

Distribution of authors
The distribution is heavy tailed.
The most prolific author (2,895 petitions)
is named “selenium s....

Social media campaigning
The distributions of social media shares are also heavy-tailed.
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Social media campaigning
Signatures and social media shares are strongly correlated.
12
This is not the case for a
small s...

Social media campaigning
Signatures and social media shares are strongly correlated.
13
This is not the case for a
small s...

Linguistic and geographical patterns
Evidence of (1) multilingual countries (Canada, Belgium, Argelia,
Morocco, Ukraine), ...

Linguistic and geographical patterns
Evidence of (1) multilingual countries (Canada, Belgium, Argelia,
Morocco, Ukraine), ...

Conclusions
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Conclusion and future work (in progress)
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The release of this dataset opens the path to address future work
Bot detectio...

Dumas, C. L.; LaManna, D.; Harrison, T. M.; Ravi, S.; Kotfila, C.; Gervais, N.; Hagen, L.; and Chen, F. 2015.
Examining po...

References
Lindner, R., and Riehm, U. 2011. Broadening participation through e-petitions? an empirical study of
petitions ...

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Thank you
@elaragon
https://elaragon.wordpress.com
pablo.aragon@upf.edu
Pablo Aragón, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Miriam Redi, ...

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