Research

Most of our work with automated coding is still forthcoming, but some of our recent papers using automated content (analysis are listed below.

If you have an academic paper, either published or in conference proceedings, using Lexicoder, please do let us know!)

"Affective News: The Automated Coding of Sentiment in Political Texts," Lori Young and Stuart Soroka, N.d., Political Communication.

Public Perceptions and Media Coverage of the Canadian Health Care System: A Synthesis, Stuart Soroka, for the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.

"The Gatekeeping Function: Distributions of Information in Media and the Real World," Stuart Soroka, N.d., The Journal of Politics.

"The International Two-Step Flow in Foreign News: Canadian and US Television News Coverage of Foreign Affairs," Stephen Farnsworth, Stuart Soroka and Lori Young, 2010, the International Journal of Press and Politics.

"Campaign News and Vote Intentions in Canada, 1993-2008," Stuart Soroka, Marc Andre Bodet, and Lori Young, paper for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto ON, Sept 2009.

The human-coded portion of this research is published in "Campaign News and Vote Intentions," Stuart Soroka, Marc Andre Bodet, Lori Young and Blake Andrew, in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

"Media Content & Election Campaigns: 2008 in Comparative Context," Mark Daku, Adam Mahon, Stuart Soroka and Lori Young, paper for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa ON, May 2009.

“Back To The Future: Press Coverage of the 2008 Canadian Election Campaign Strikes Both Familiar and Unfamiliar Tones,” Blake Andrew, Lori Young and Stuart Soroka, Policy Options (November 2008). (This work uses the penultimate version of our topic and sentiment dictionaries)

“Canadian TV News on Bush and Iraq: No More Hostile than Top US Network,” with Stephen Farnsworth and Stuart Soroka, Policy Options (July-August 2007). (The first use of our geography dictionary to capture the tone of coverage of nations.)

"From Letters to Numbers: Quantifying Uganda's ABC approach to the HIV/AIDS epidemic," Mark Daku, paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2009.