Computational vs. qualitative: analyzing different approaches in identifying networked frames during the Covid-19 crisis

Figures & data

Figure 1. The frequency of networked frames in sample 3, resulting from human-driven coding.

Table 1. LDA result on sample 1 (RT network).

K	No of documents	Share	Label	Top words	Degree of coherence	Degree of compatibility	Compatible frame(s)
2	40378	0.114974	-	Life, alcohol, Nowruz, dad, problem, pray, easy, take, call, solution	Low	-	-
0	34008	0.096836	News and information	Hospital, Qom, infected, Tehran, infection, university, province, suspicious, closed, death	High	High	Infected people
7	31767	0.090455	Statistics	Health, announcement, statistics, country, death, ministry, infection, number, infected, minister	High	High	Infected people
1	30956	0.088146	Inefficiency of the state	Crisis, Islamic, republic, government, Rouhani, media, management, the state, news, lie	Medium	Medium	FC (IRI) Solving the crisis (Iran’s power, government’s good performance) RDM (media against Iran)
3	29359	0.083598	The state’s confrontation with the COVID-19 crisis	Confrontation, fight, regime, identification, Khamenei, IRIGC, war, kit, France, England	Medium	Medium	Solving the crisis (government’s good performance) FC (IRI)
5	28806	0.082024	Prevention and health advices	Mask, treatment, prevention, vaccine, follow, transmitting, probability, advice, disinfection, infectious	High	High	Covid-19 adversities (following sanitary guidelines)
8	28400	0.080868	Covid −19 properties	Though, authorities, cough, region, nose, fever, warm, inhale, stress, type	High	High	Covid-19 adversities (risks and properties)
6	26678	0.075964	Coronavirus situation and effects in other countries	Outbreak, United States, circumstances, globe, disaster, Trump, spreading, prevention, conditions, decrease	Medium	Medium	Covid-19 effects (global)
4	25746	0.073311	Poor management	China, quarantine, world, country, control, Europe, dirty, abroad, cancel, Wuhan	Medium	Medium	FC (IRI, China)
9	25619	0.072949	-	Esfand*, Saturday, Korea, weather, my heart, day, dad, SMS, mother, southern	Very low	-	-
10	25313	0.072078	Religious and ideological messages	People, God, prison, defeat, political, flood, earthquake, shrine, west, heart	Medium	Medium	The role of religion (absurdness, importance)
11	24161	0.068797	-	People, election, Bahman, nation, God, Aban*, authorities, defeat, hard, viral	Very low	-	-

*Aban and Esfand are the names of some months in Persian calendar