With the increasing relevance of ethnic groups as political actors, the literature has attempted to identify and study the ethnic organizations representing these groups. How do these organizations use digital communication channels to reach their domestic and international audiences? To enable research on these questions, this article introduces the Ethnic Organizations Online dataset, a new data collection focusing on the online channels that ethnic organizations use. The dataset includes four types of channels: Twitter (since July 2023, rebranded by Elon Musk as X); Facebook; Instagram; and regular websites. It relies on the Ethnic Power Relations – Organizations database, and is therefore compatible with an entire family of datasets on ethnic politics. Featuring more than 2000 online channels used by 265 groups, it allows researchers to study a wide variety of questions related to digital ethnic mobilization. The article presents three examples of how the dataset can be used. We study: (a) how a group’s political goals influence social media adoption; (b) how elections impact the organizations’ communication frequency and how this differs between democracies and autocracies; and (c) how the power status of a group affects the content of their communication. We provide replication codes facilitating the use of the dataset in applied research.

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通过数字手段进行民族政治：民族组织在线数据集简介

随着少数民族群体作为政治行为体的重要性日益增强，文献试图识别和研究代表这些群体的少数民族组织。这些组织如何使用数字通信渠道来接触国内和国际受众？为了对这些问题进行研究，本文介绍了民族组织在线数据集，这是一个专注于民族组织使用的在线渠道的新数据集合。该数据集包括四种类型的渠道： Twitter（自 2023 年 7 月起，由 Elon Musk 更名为 X）； Facebook; Instagram；和常规网站。它依赖于种族权力关系 - 组织数据库，因此与整个种族政治数据集兼容。它拥有 265 个团体使用的 2000 多个在线渠道，使研究人员能够研究与数字种族动员相关的各种问题。本文提供了如何使用数据集的三个示例。我们研究：(a) 团体的政治目标如何影响社交媒体的采用； (b) 选举如何影响组织的沟通频率以及民主国家和独裁国家之间的差异； (c) 一个群体的权力地位如何影响他们的交流内容。我们提供复制代码，促进数据集在应用研究中的使用。