Mining media topics perceived as social problems by online audiences: use of a data mining approach in sociology
Journal: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Year: 2017

Media audiences that represent a significant part of a county’s public may hold opinions on media-generated definitions of social problems different from those of media professionals. The proliferation of user-generated content makes such opinions available, but simultaneously demands new automatic methods of analysis that media scholars still have to master. In this paper, we show how topics regarded as problematic by media consumers may be revealed and analyzed by social scientists with a comb