Topic modeling for frame analysis: A study of media debates on climate change in India and USA

IF 1.5 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Global Media and Communication Pub Date : 2021-06-17 DOI:10.1177/17427665211023984

Tuukka Ylä-Anttila, V. Eranti, Anna Kukkonen

引用次数: 15

Abstract

We argue that ‘topics’ of topic models can be used as a useful proxy for frames if (1) frames are operationalized as connections between concepts; (2) theme-specific data are used; and (3) topics are validated in terms of frame analysis. Demonstrating this, we analyse 12 climate change frames used by NGOs, governments and experts in Indian and US media, gathered by topic modeling. We contribute methodologically to topic modeling in the social sciences and frame analysis of public debates, and empirically to research on climate change media debates.

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框架分析的主题建模：印度和美国媒体关于气候变化的辩论研究

我们认为，如果（1）框架被操作为概念之间的连接，则主题模型的“主题”可以用作框架的有用代理；（2）使用特定于主题的数据；以及（3）在框架分析方面对主题进行了验证。为了证明这一点，我们分析了非政府组织、政府和印度和美国媒体专家通过主题建模收集的12个气候变化框架。我们在方法论上为社会科学中的主题建模和公共辩论的框架分析做出了贡献，并在实证上为气候变化媒体辩论的研究做出了贡献。

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Global Media and Communication COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Global Media and Communication is an international peer-reviewed journal launched in April 2005 as a key forum for articulating critical debates and developments in the continuously changing global media and communications environment. As a pioneering platform for the exchange of ideas and multiple perspectives, the journal addresses fresh and contentious research agendas and promotes an academic dialogue that is fully transnational and transdisciplinary in its scope. With a network of ten regional editors around the world, the journal offers a global source of material on international media and cultural processes. Special features include interviews, reviews of recent media developments and digests of policy documents and data reports from a variety of countries.