Frames Beyond Words: Applying Cluster and Sentiment Analysis to News Coverage of the Nuclear Power Issue

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 530-545

  Burscher, Bjorn ^a   Vliegenthart, Rens ^a   Vreese, Claes H de ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; information retrieval; news framing; sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986253490     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439315596385     Document Type: Article

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