Media Analysis Methodology and Data

Latest posts on methodology and media data

• New research paper on Sputnik News to be presented at ECPR Hamburg
• LSS model for protest framing analysis is available now
• Ukraine crisis timeline and news coverage of Euromaidan protests
• Dictionary Construction Procedure
• Russian Protest Media Framing Dictionary
• Content Analysis Employing the LSS Dictionary
• Russian Protest Media Framing Data 2011-2013

Recent Publications and Working Papers

• Kohei Watanabe, 2017. Measuring News Bias: Russia’s Official News Agency ITAR-TASS’s Coverage of the Ukraine Crisis, European Journal Communication
• Kohei Watanabe, 2017. The spread of the Kremlin’s narratives by a western news agency during the Ukraine crisis, Journal of International Communication.
• Tomila Lankina and Kohei Watanabe. 2017. ‘Russian Spring’ or ‘Spring Betrayal’? The Media as a Mirror of Putin’s Evolving Strategy in Ukraine, Europe-Asia Studies.
• Lankina, Tomila, Kohei Watanabe, and Yulia Netesova. 2016. “Framing, Fabricating, and Leveraging Protest: How Russian State Media Manipulate Public Discontent.” Working Paper.
• Lankina, Tomila, and Kinga Niemczyk. 2015. “What Putin Gets about Soft Power.” In Russia’s Foreign Policy, eds. David Cadier and Margot Light. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.