The Media Content Analysis Lab aims to offer opportunities for systematic access and analysis of large corpora of digital media content. Ultimately, Media Content Analysis Lab seeks to tackle the major challenge of digital text analysis whereby copyright and GDPR restrictions make it very hard to share media content data. We provide a workbench for researchers where they can share data and analyses with strict rights management, without the need to read or export the data themselves. As a first step, we developed the MCALentory where we provide a systematic overview of existing research, data and tools in Dutch language content analysis studies. The database contains articles, (raw) data, and supplementary materials such as codebooks, syntaxes and scripts that are used for the analysis. Rens Vliegenthart, together with Anne Kroon (University of Amsterdam), is project leader.
The Media Content Analysis Lab is part of the ODISSEI infrastructure. For more information, see the MCAL page on the ODISEI website.
Data-Driven Democracy Lab 