Yesterday’s Papers and Today’s Technology

Digital Newspaper Archives and ‘Push Button’ Content Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID7495276
AuthorsDesley Deacon (0000-0002-4185-0883, Loughborough University, corresponding author), David Deacon (0000-0002-4166-4861, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK)
Year2007
Volume22
Issue1
Pages5-25
Publication date2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-3231 • E-ISSN: 1460-3705
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0267323107073743
OpenAlexW2082821250
LanguageEN
Citations received36
References cited17

This article considers the methodological implications of using digital newspaper archives for analysis of media content. The discussion identifies arange of validity and reliability concerns about this increasingly prevalent mode of analysis, which have been under-appreciated to date. Although these questions do not deny a role for the use of proxy data in media analysis, they do highlight the need for caution when researchers rely on text-based, digitalized archives

Content analysis · Data science · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Proxy (statistics · Reliability (semiconductor · Social science · Sociology · Yesterday · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Computer Science · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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