1st Edition
Rethinking Research Methods in an Age of Digital Journalism
Introduction: Research methods in an age of digital journalism Michael Karlsson and Helle Sjøvaag
1. Taking Stock of the Toolkit: An overview of relevant automated content analysis approaches and techniques for digital journalism scholars Jelle W. Boumans and Damian Trilling
2. Tracing Online News in Motion: Time and duration in the study of liquid journalism Andreas Widholm
3. What is the meaning of a news link? David Ryfe, Donica Mensing and Richard Kelley
4. Chances and Challenges of Computational Data Gathering and Analysis: The case of issue-attention cycles on Facebook Niina Sormanen, Jukka Rohila, Epp Lauk, Turo Uskali, Jukka Jouhki and Maija Penttinen
5. Word Counts and Topic Models: Automated text analysis methods for digital journalism research Elisabeth Günther and Thorsten Quandt
6. Quantitative analysis of large amounts of journalistic texts using topic modelling Carina Jacobi, Wouter van Atteveldt and Kasper Welbers
7. Googling the news: Opportunities and challenges in studying news events through Google Search Jacob Ørmen
8. Grasping the Digital News User: Conceptual and methodological advances in news use studies Ike Picone
9. Same, Same but Different: Effects of mixing Web and mail modes in audience research Annika Bergström
10. Action Research: Collaborative research for the improvement of digital journalism practice Stephanie Grubenmann
11. Content Analysis and Online News: Epistemologies of analysing the ephemeral Web Michael Karlsson and Helle Sjøvaag
Biography
Michael Karlsson is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden.
Helle Sjøvaag is a Research Professor in Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.
