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Scaling up Content Analysis

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Damian Trilling *
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Jeroen Jonkman
DOI:10.1080/19312458.2018.1447655delete
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Employing a number of different standalone programs is a prevalent approach among communication scholars who use computational methods to analyze media content. For instance, a researcher might use a specific program or a paid service to scrape some content from the Web, then use another program to process the resulting data, and finally conduct statistical analysis or produce some visualizations in yet another program. This makes it hard to build reproducible workflows, and even harder to build on the work of earlier studies. To improve this situation, we propose and discuss four criteria that a framework for automated content analysis should fulfill: scalability, free and open source, adaptability, and accessibility via multiple interfaces. We also describe how to put these considerations into practice, discuss their feasibility, and point toward future developments.
Keywords:
BIG DATA
SOCIAL-SCIENCE
MEDIA
FRAMES
COMMUNICATION
JOURNALISM
AGENDA
CHALLENGES
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Communication Methods and Measures
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university of amsterdam
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