Dataset title: GAFAM Self-Narratives
Dataset author(s): Martin Mölder (University of Tartu), 0000-0002-9701-1771; Bogdan Romanov (University of Tartu), 0000-0001-8594-2387
Dataset contact person: Martin Mölder (University of Tartu), 0000-0002-9701-1771, martin.molder@ut.ee
Dataset license: this dataset is distributed under CC-BY 4.0
Date of publication: 05.09.2023
Project information: INCA (Increase Corporate Political Responsibility and Accountability), funded by European Union Horizon Europe Programme. Grant Agreement no. 101061653; https://inca-project.eu/

Dataset files
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-	INCA_D6_GAFAM_self_narratives_texts_20230905.csv

The file contains information about press releases and blog posts of GAFAM companies.  

Dataset documentation
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Dataset summary
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This data set contains information about texts that have been collected from the websites (blogs and news archives) of GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) companies. The purpose of this data set is to provide a collection of materials that can be used to analyse the self-image and the social and political role that GAFAM companies convey of themselves. The texts themselves are not included in this data set so as to not infringe on the rights of their authors. Instead, the data set contains the link to the original source of the text. 

Data sources
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The data was colleced from the following websites:

https://press.aboutamazon.com/press-release-archive
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news
https://blog.google
https://about.fb.com/news/
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/
https://news.microsoft.com/category/press-releases
https://blogs.microsoft.com/

Codebook
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url  			Link to the text that was collected.
title 	 		The title of the text. 
date  			Date of publication.
company_website  	The name of the company and the type of website where the text was collected from. 

Version notes
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Version 1.1

This is the version of the dataset that was published in September 2023. An initial version was prepared in July, which was amended throughout August.