Representation of migrant workers in Chinese newspapers: combining topic modeling and critical discourse analysis.
Chinese migrant workers have contributed greatly to the industrialization and urbanization of China and have thus long been a popular topic in news reports. Most previous studies on the news about this group have been qualitative or quantitative analyses based on small-scale datasets, with few based...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 40; pp. 1092 - 1112 |
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