[Air-L] Constructed Week Sampling Online News

Wed May 20 11:48:36 PDT 2015

Hi Jeanine! 

I’m interested on the dissertation. It would be great if you could send me a copy.
I’ll check these papers. Hopefully they’ll give me a clearer idea on how to sample my data :) 

There’s CWS on Ryffe’s Analyzing Media Messages. Maybe you saw it there? 

Best,

Patrícia

> Em 20/05/2015, à(s) 15:40, Jeanine Finn <jefinn at utexas.edu> escreveu:
> 
> You’re right about the Neundorf - I know I saw constructed week sampling in some recent-ish content analysis methods book…but I can’t think where. Arg.
> 
> A couple other things that might help.
> 
> A recent dissertation from our University used it for online news on a specific topic - but using Facebook. Not sure if it’s quite white you’re looking for: “LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY?” Toward an Understanding of the Re-appropriation of Social Media for Emancipatory Uses among Alternative Media Projects in El Salvador by Summer Harlow. (I can get a copy of this to you if you’re interested).
> 
> Maybe also: 
>  Badenschier, F. and Wormer, H. 2012. Issue selection in science journalism: Towards a special theory of news values for science news? The Sciences’ Media Connection –Public Communication and its Repercussions. S. Rödder et al., eds. Springer Netherlands. 59–85.
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> Carpenter, S. 2007. U.S. elite and non-elite newspapers’ portrayal of the Iraq war: A comparison of frames and source use. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 84, 4 (Dec. 2007), 761–776.
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> (These also have a topic-focus).
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jeanine
> 
> 
>> On May 20, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Patricia Rossini <patyrossini at gmail.com <mailto:patyrossini at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I read this Ryffe et al 1993 and it made a good case on why to pick this method for sampling. But it didn’t answer my concern on how to do it when you’re interested in only one section/topic. I think Neuendorf’s CAG does not cover this - I couldn’t find it in my edition (2003).
>> Thanks for sharing this study! 
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>>> Em 20/05/2015, à(s) 15:23, Jeanine Finn <jefinn at utexas.edu <mailto:jefinn at utexas.edu>> escreveu:
>>> 
>>> Hi there-
>>> 
>>> Constructed-week sampling is pretty well-established in news media research.
>>> 
>>> You might look at: 
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>>> Riffe D, Aust CF and Lacy SR (1993) The effectiveness of random, consecutive day and constructed week sampling in newspaper content analysis. Journalism Quarterly (70)1: 133–139. (to explain the method, but it an analog context) and
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>>> Artwick, C.G. 2013. News sourcing and gender on Twitter. Journalism. (Nov. 2013) as another recent online example.
>>> 
>>> I though Neuendorf’s Content Analysis Guidebook covered this method, but I can’t seem to find it in the index. If you have a copy of that handy, you might also try and take a look there.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Jeanine
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>>> On May 20, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Patricia Rossini <patyrossini at gmail.com <mailto:patyrossini at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I’m a Ph.D student in Brazil and I study political discussion around political news across multiple venues online. 
>>>> I recently came across a study that used constructed week sampling to analyze political discussion online in two venues WSJ website and facebook page (Rowe, 2015). Which is similar to what I want to do.
>>>> 
>>>> I was wondering if anyone has tips or texts on this method for sampling online news, as well as the advantages of this approach. It seems to me that - at least in newspapers and magazines - this is a better way to get a representative sample of a period of time. 
>>>> However, some of the studies I read on the method sampled news on all themes and I’ll only focus on political news. 
>>>> How should I proceed: first map the political news posted during a period of time [2 months] and then constructing my week OR construct the week with all stories from all sections and then analyze only the political topics that appear on the constructed week? 
>>>> 
>>>> It seems like the second approach would give a better sample in terms of representing the political news coverage. But since I’ve never worked with this method, I am asking for advice. After all, this list has proven to be very helpful in many occasions :)
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you all, in advance, for your contributions! 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Patricia Rossini
>>>> Ph.D Student | Department of Social Communication
>>>> Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil 
>>>> Associated researcher at the Media and Public Sphere research group (EME/UFMG)
>>>> patriciarossini at ufmg.br <mailto:patriciarossini at ufmg.br>
>>>> +Academia.edu <http://academia.edu/> <http://ufmg.academia.edu/Patr%C3%ADciaRossini <http://ufmg.academia.edu/Patr%C3%ADciaRossini>>
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