Affective News: The Automated Coding of Sentiment in Political Texts

Political Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-231

  Young, Lori ^a   Soroka, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

content analysis; media tone; methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860811138     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2012.671234     Document Type: Article

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