Global Spider News Database (version 2)

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posted on 2025-05-19, 08:25 authored by Stefano MammolaStefano Mammola, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Valeria Arabesky, Diego Alejandro Barrales-Alcalá, Aimee Lynn Barrion-Dupo, Marco Antonio Benamú, Tharina L. Bird, Maria Bogolomova, Pedro Cardoso, Maria Chatzaki, Ren-Chung Cheng, Tien-Ai Chu, Leticia Classen-Rodríguez, Iva Čupić, Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq, André-Philippe Drapeau Picard, Hisham K. El-Hennawy, Mert Elverici, Fukushima, Caroline Sayuri, Zeana Ganem, Efrat Gavish-Regev, Naledi T. Gonnye, Axel Hacala, Charles R. Haddad, Thomas Hesselberg, Tammy Ai Tian Ho, Thanakorn Into, Marco Isaia, Dharmaraj Jayaraman, Nanguei Karuaera, Rajashree Khalap, Kiran Khalap, Dongyoung Kim, Tuuli Korhonen, Simona Kralj-Fišer, Heidi Land, Shou-Li Wang, Sarah Loboda, Elizabeth Lowe, Yael Lubin, Marija Miličić, Alejandro Martínez, Zingisile Mbo, Grace Mwende Kioko, Veronica NanniVeronica Nanni, Yusoff Norma-Rashid, Daniel Nwankwo, Christina J. Painting, Aleck Pang, Paolo Pantini, Martina PavlekMartina Pavlek, Richard Pearce, Booppa Petcharad, Julien Pétillon, Onjaherizo Christian Raberahona, Joni A. Saarinen, Laura Segura-Hernández, Lenka Sentenská, Gabriele Uhl, Leilani WalkerLeilani Walker, Charles M. Warui, Konrad Wiśniewski, Alireza Zamani, Catherine Scott, Angela Chuang

A global database on the media representation of human-spider encounters in the global press. The database is fully described in this publication, which should be cited when using it:

Mammola, S. et al. 2022. An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites. Scientific Data, doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6

An Excel file (.xslx) and a tab-delimited (.csv) version of the database is provided. Columns are explained in the metadata file.

------ Change-log version 2:

We updated the database following the publication of:

Nanni V, Moioli I, Scott C, Mammola S (2025). Social media filtering of sensationalistic news on spiders—a global overview. People & Nature, in press.

We corrected several typos and added new variables (Deadly, Facebook interactions, Facebook shares). See Meta_Data_V2.pdf for details.