Using Computational Text Analysis Tools to Study African Online News Content

Madrid-Morales, Dani

doi:10.1080/23743670.2020.1820885

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“…Even though Ghana has a diverse media landscape online, most of the relevant websites for online news were either not well‐suited for scraping large bodies of texts or did not provide a satisfactory online archive for the period of analysis. Despite its shortcomings and supplementary character, however, this analysis contributes to the study of African online news content (Madrid‐Morales, 2020).…”

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A Platform or Partner: Engaging the Media in Advocacy

Selvik

2021

Global Policy

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What are the roles of media actors in relation to civil society actors in advocacy campaigns, and what factors shape these roles? Interested in media strategies of civil society actors, the paper examines the advocacy for a ‘right to information’ law in Ghana. While journalists are obvious partners in pushing for the right to information, the civil society‐led advocacy encountered a passive media. Focused on mechanisms of engaging media actors as advocates in civil society‐led advocacy, this study relies on interviews with key actors in the advocacy campaign and textual analysis of news coverage, spanning 2010–2019. The paper posits that mainly two factors contributed to the media taking a more active role in the campaign; the Civil Society Organisations changed their approach and how they communicated and related to media actors, and media actors developed more awareness and understanding of the advocacy issue. Two important main mechanisms are uncovered in this study. First, it matters how civil society actors perceive of media actors in their media strategy, and how this in turn is received by media actors. Second, when CSOs seek to engage media as partners, it is necessary to also give room for their ownership and advocacy as independent partners.

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“…1 1 See ‘About GhanaWeb’ here: https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/aboutus.php. See Madrid‐Morales (2020) for more on web scraping African news outlets, and Appendix or GitHub repository for more on the textual data. …”

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A Platform or Partner: Engaging the Media in Advocacy

Selvik

2021

Global Policy

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“…Unlike McCombs and Shaw's (1972) study, where they had to administer surveys physically, the Internet has made it easier and cheaper for one to collect data only from both existing datasets and respondents and analyze the data with less human interventions. The smooth process has not gone without criticism, as many scholars question the accuracy of computer-generated results (Guo et al, 2020;Madrid-Morales, 2020). Madrid-Morales (2020) goes further to suggest an amalgamation or the hybridization of both the traditional and new approaches to the analysis of data (p. 12).…”

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“…In Africa, crowdcoding as a method is a terra incognita. However, related studies such as those by Madrid-Morales (2020), Alikhani (2014), andDu Plessis (2011) have expressed not only the need but also the ability for African communication researchers to draw on a wide array of methods as a way of perfecting the validity and efficiency of the process of data collection and analysis in African environments. As Kwansah-Aidoo (2001) and Gondwe and Muchangwe (2020) had earlier demonstrated, most approaches drawn from western scholarship end up producing inconclusive results.…”

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