Albanian Media Discourse on the TikTok Ban Across Three Policy Phases

A 201-item sample of Albanian media items from 11 outlets, analyzed for discourse on the TikTok ban. The dataset was created by Lorena Licenji and last updated on June 3, 2026. It contains coded items for stance, actor voice, primary frame, legitimation cues, and remedy constructions across announcement, enforcement, and rollback phases.

Use Cases

• Analyzing shifts in media framing based on the coded primary frame variable across policy phases.
• Studying the relationship between actor voice and stance toward the ban using the coded actor and stance columns.
• Examining patterns of policy legitimation and re-legitimation through the coded legitimation cues and remedy constructions.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a qualitatively driven mixed-method content analysis of 240 items from 11 outlets.
• Includes a main analytic sample of 235 items and a 201-item robustness sample for analysis validation.
• Items are coded for multiple analytical dimensions: stance, actor voice, primary frame, legitimation cues, and remedy constructions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and source bias inherent to the 11 selected Albanian media outlets.

Provenance

Source

Lorena Licenji via figshare

Collection Method

Qualitatively driven mixed-method content analysis of media items.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 06:00:52; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Albania