Research methods in the age of digital journalism: Massive-scale automated analysis of newscontent—topics, style and gender

Digital Journalism

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-116

  Flaounas, Ilias ^a   Ali, Omar ^a   Lansdall Welfare, Thomas ^a   De Bie, Tijl ^a   Mosdell, Nick ^b   Lewis, Justin ^b   Cristianini, Nello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automation of coding; Automation of content analysis; Data mining; Largescale text analysis; Pattern discovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964255532     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2012.714928     Document Type: Article

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