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"But How Are They Talked About?": A Novel Measure of Entity Framing in Online News

Sat, May 26, 11:00 to 12:15, Hilton Old Town, Floor: M, Dvorak I

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a novel method for analyzing entity framing in a large corpus of online news articles. This measure is proposed as a solution to the heretofore intractable problem of large-scale analysis of framing for particular entities within corpora too large to be reliably hand-coded and for which no document selection procedures have been devised. In this method, a semantic network is constructed from preprocessed text wherein nodes represent individual words/n-grams, and edge weights represent cosine distance between words or n-grams in high-dimensional vector space. A random walk with restart (RWR) is initiated across the graph from the node of interest, creating a list of words associated with the node which can then be analyzed using a variety of computational or manual coding techniques. We demonstrate that this method serves as a helpful tool for the analysis of latent frames for both media researchers and journalists.

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