Decoding community proximity discourse: A mixed-methods comparative analysis of online local and national newspapers in Romandy, Switzerland.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a mixed-method approach to analyzing news media, combining quantitative linguistic metrics with qualitative discourse frameworks. We first extract linguistic features such as quotations, readability levels, and lexical richness, then perform named entity recognition and topic modeling. To add depth, we apply Fairclough's model of critical discourse analysis-highlighting social and cultural contexts-together with Goffman's frame analysis of social behavior, enabling a systematic comparison of narrative strategies and community engagement. We provide new evidence on how local and national papers diverge not only in content, but also in temporal framing, participatory practices, and the construction of proximity. We validate this pipeline by comparing local and national ne

SUBMITTER: Bros V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12316251 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature