Public Comments on Online Kidnapping News from VnExpress, 2025

VnExpress readers' comments on online kidnapping news articles from June to November 2025. The dataset contains 1,710 comments analyzed for audience frames and themes. It was created by Thi Thuy Dung Hoang and published on figshare in 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze public sentiment and moral judgment based on comment themes.
• Study audience framing of cyber fraud events based on the identified frames.
• Train NLP models for thematic classification of news comments based on the described frames and themes.
• Investigate the role of digital comment sections as secondary interpretive layers in news discourse.

Strengths

• Contains 1,710 individual reader comments.
• Analysis is grounded in Reception and Framing theories, providing a structured theoretical lens.
• Data is openly available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is sourced from a single Vietnamese news outlet (VnExpress), which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Thi Thuy Dung Hoang via figshare.

Collection Method

Thematic and content analysis of comments on VnExpress articles.

Time Range

June to November 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-02 17:34:08; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely Vietnam, based on the source (VnExpress).