Libraries

POLI 234: Media & Politics

American National Election Studies (ANES), 1948+
Continuous series of survey data for electoral behavior and attitudes in the United States. ANES interviews are conducted before and after presidential elections and after national congressional elections. Post-election interviews include questions on voting behavior.
GenForward Survey Project
A nationally representative survey of over 4,000 people that amplifies the voices of young adults by over sampling African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinx Americans under 40; housed at the University of Chicago.

ICPSR
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

Media Cloud
Media Cloud is an open source platform for studying media ecosystems. Media Cloud is a joint project by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Pew Research Center, 1997+
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
Reflective Democracy's Demographics of Power Datasets
Reports and data pertaining to race and gender of elected officials at the federal, state and local levels; 2012 - present. A project of the Womens Donors Network.
Social Media Archive
Launched in Spring 2023, social media data for researchers from ICPSR with a focus on Facebook/Meta and the 2020 US elections.
ElectionGraph: Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship
Focus on dissecting misinformation themes, pinpointing origins of messages and tracing misinformation by collecting and algorithmically classifying ads run on Facebook and Instagram as well as social media posts on Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter.

DataCite
Large index of research data compiling data across over 1000 repositories including the Harvard Dataverse, ICPSR and Dryad.
Google Dataset Search (Beta)
A search tool from Google launched in 2018 to locate freely available online data.

Statista.com
Statistics portal for researching quantitative data, statistics, and related information on media, business, finance, politics, and other areas of interest.