Through a different gate: An automated content analysis of how online news and print news differ

Journalism

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 112-129

  Burggraaff, Christiaan ^a   Trilling, Damian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

automated content analysis; computational methods; news values; online journalism; print journalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045574667     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884917716699     Document Type: Article

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