Exploiting affinities between topic modeling and the sociological perspective on culture: Application to newspaper coverage of U.S. government arts funding

Poetics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 570-606

  DiMaggio, Paul ^a   Nag, Manish ^a   Blei, David ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Heteroglossia; Meaning; National Endowment for the Arts; Polysemy; Topic models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888133421     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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