WORK PACKAGE 4 – Media content analysis
WP 4 description:
Work Package 4 responds to RO2 by collecting and analyzing newspaper content from Romania, and creating a publicly accessible and copyright-respecting dataset with meta-data on newspaper articles and machine-coded news content. The corpus will include all relevant online articles in 3 main Romanian online media outlets from 2016 till 2022 and apply supervised machine learning to trace how the policies coded in the Comparative Policy Agenda project are associated with different political parties over time, and examine associated sentiments and how news content reflects the actual parliamentary activities coded in WP4.
To address the complexity of analyzing textual information on party policies, we will undertake case studies of three policy issues – one relating to social policy, one to political institutions, and one to the regulation of the public sphere – that were recurrently on the parliamentary and public agenda in the last twenty years. The analysis will assess how policy statements in Romania are driven by persistent, coherent and consistent programmatic differences between the parties, by government-opposition dynamics, or other factors.
Wp4 in 2021
Activities
1.4.1 Training in data collection, collation and analysis of online content
1.4.2 Collecting and analyzing online content from 3 media outlets in Romania 2016 – 2020
1.4.3 First case study of policy issue (democratic public sphere regulation)
Wp4 in 2022
Activities
2.4.1. Collating and analyzing online content from 3 media outlets in Romania
2.4.2. Case studies of two remaining policy issues – one relating to social policy, one to political institutions – that were recurrently on the parliament’s agenda in the last twenty years
Wp4 in 2023
Activities
3.4.1. Collecting and analyzing newspaper content from Romania
3.4.2. Creating a publicly accessible and copyright-respecting dataset with meta-data on newspaper articles and machine-coded news content
3.4.3 Finalizing case studies of three policy issues – one relating to social policy, one to political institutions, and one to the regulation of the public sphere – that were recurrently on the parliament’s agenda in the last twenty years