The Rise of Twitter in the Political Campaign: Searching for Intermedia Agenda-Setting Effects in the Presidential Primary (2015)

Authors: Bethany A. Conway^, Kate Kenski  and Di Wang

Description: QDA Miner, a computer-assisted qualitative coding program, and its quantitative component WordStat, a text mining software tool, were used to code and analyze issue frequencies within news coverage and Twitter data. Such computer-assisted analyses are typical of projects using “big data” (Parks, 2014).

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