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Yesterday’s Papers and Today’s Technology

Digital Newspaper Archives and ‘Push Button’ Content Analysis

David Deacon

Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK, d.n.deacon{at}lboro.ac.uk

This article considers the methodological implications of using digital newspaper archives for analysis of media content. The discussion identifies arange of validity and reliability concerns about this increasingly prevalent mode of analysis, which have been under-appreciated to date. Although these questions do not deny a role for the use of proxy data in media analysis, they do highlight the need for caution when researchers rely on text-based, digitalized archives.

Key Words: content analysis • digital news archives • Lexis-Nexis • political communication • research methods

European Journal of Communication, Vol. 22, No. 1, 5-25 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0267323107073743
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