Understanding the social construction of juvenile delinquency: insights from semantic analysis of big-data historical newspaper collections
Yu Zhang,
Adam Davies,
ChengXiang Zhai
Abstract:Massive historical newspaper collections contain rich information about the historical development of social issues and constitute a unique resource for studying the social construction of issues such as juvenile delinquency. However, manual analysis of millions of pages of newspaper articles is infeasible. In this paper, we propose a suite of computational methods, including cross-context lexical analysis, dynamic semantic analysis, and valence analysis, to facilitate the study of historical social constructi… Show more
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