The search for solid ground in text as data: A systematic review of validation practices and practical recommendations for validation

L Birkenmaier, CM Lechner… - … methods and measures, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Communication research frequently applies computational text analysis methods (CTAM) to
detect and measure social science constructs. However, the validity of these measures can …

Text‐based sentiment analysis in finance: Synthesising the existing literature and exploring future directions

A Todd, J Bowden, Y Moshfeghi - Intelligent Systems in …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Summary Advances in Deep Learning have drastically improved the abilities of Natural
Language Processing (NLP) research, creating new state‐of‐the‐art benchmarks. Two …

[کتاب][B] Computational analysis of communication

W Van Atteveldt, D Trilling, CA Calderon - 2022‏ - books.google.com
Provides clear guidance on leveraging computational techniques to answer social science
questions In disciplines such as political science, sociology, psychology, and media studies …

Validating daily social media macroscopes of emotions

M Pellert, H Metzler, M Matzenberger, D Garcia - Scientific reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Measuring sentiment in social media text has become an important practice in studying
emotions at the macroscopic level. However, this approach can suffer from methodological …

Beyond counting words: Assessing performance of dictionaries, supervised machine learning, and embeddings in topic and frame classification

AC Kroon, T van der Meer… - Computational …, 2022‏ - aup-online.com
Topics and frames are at the heart of various theories in communication science and other
social sciences, making their measurement of key interest to many scholars. The current …

RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online

C Puschmann, H Karakurt, C Amlinger, N Gess… - …, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
We describe a novel computational dictionary for the study of right-wing populist conspiracy
discourse (RPC) on the internet, specifically in the context of contemporary German politics …

Enhancing theory-informed dictionary approaches with “glass-box” machine learning: The case of integrative complexity in social media comments

T Dobbrick, J Jakob, CH Chan… - … Methods and Measures, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Dictionary-based approaches to computational text analysis have been shown to perform
relatively poorly, particularly when the dictionaries rely on simple bags of words, are not …

Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies

A Heft, K Buehling - Convergence, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Digital platforms and media are fertile breeding grounds for disinformation and
conspirational views. They provide a variety of communication venues for a mixed set of …

If you have choices, why not choose (and share) all of them? A multiverse approach to understanding news engagement on social media

C Pipal, H Song, HG Boomgaarden - Digital Journalism, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Social sciences are facing a crisis of replicability, and concerns about the confidence in
quantitative findings have resulted in an increasing interest in open science practices across …

[PDF][PDF] oolong: An R package for validating automated content analysis tools

C Chan, M Sältzer - The Journal of Open Source …, 2020‏ - madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de
While the validation of statistical properties of topics models is well established, the
substantive meaning of categories uncovered is often less clear and their interpretation …