Media Content Analysis

Conor Nistler & Mohannad Salaghur; Mentor: Lynsie Ranker

As part of an interdisciplinary team led by Dr. Lei Guo (Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Sciences), students from the Corps are helping to examine news coverage of COVID-19 including the topics and the framing of the topics/issues in news coverage of the pandemic. Specifically, Corps students are assisting with qualitative coding to better inform the computer algorithms used in the machine learning content analysis. Future directions include evaluating changes in topic coverage and issue framing during the course of the first COVID-19 wave in the United States during Spring 2020.