340 News Items on Polarization from Spanish and British Newspapers in 2022

340 news items containing the term 'polarization' were collected from four mainstream digital newspapers in 2022. The corpus includes two Spanish and two British publications, each representing center-left and center-right political leanings. The dataset was authored by ROMANO MOZO, MANUELA and last updated on the DataSalon platform in October 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyzing media framing and narrative construction based on the use of the term 'polarization'.
• Conducting cross-national comparative studies based on the inclusion of Spanish and British sources.
• Studying partisan language differences based on the selection of center-left and center-right newspapers.
• Training or fine-tuning NLP models for political text classification based on a focused corpus.

Strengths

• 340 news items provide a substantive sample for qualitative or small-scale quantitative analysis.
• Explicit focus on the term 'polarization' creates a thematically coherent corpus.
• Strategic source selection includes two national contexts and two political leanings per country.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The sample is limited to four specific outlets and one year, which may affect generalizability.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

News items were collected from the digital editions of four specified newspapers.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-14 21:47:14; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spain and United Kingdom