Triangulating Temporal Dynamics in Multilingual Swiss Online News
Bros Victor, Dufraisse Evan, Popescu Adrian, Gatica-Perez Daniel

TL;DR
This study analyzes Swiss multilingual online news over time using a triangulated approach, combining quantitative and qualitative methods to reveal how linguistic and cultural contexts shape media narratives.
Contribution
It introduces a novel triangulated methodology for analyzing multilingual media dynamics, integrating quantitative metrics with qualitative insights in a complex national context.
Findings
Distinct temporal patterns across linguistic regions
Linguistic and cultural factors influence news reporting
Framework applicable to other multilingual media environments
Abstract
Analyzing news coverage in multilingual societies can offer valuable insights into the dynamics of public discourse and the development of collective narratives, yet comprehensive studies that account for linguistic and cultural diversity within national media ecosystems remain limited, particularly in complex contexts such as Switzerland. This paper studies temporal trends in Swiss digital media across the country's three main linguistic regions, French, German, and Italian, using a triangulated methodology that combines quantitative analyses with qualitative insights. We collected and processed over 1.7 million news articles, applying lexical metrics, named entity recognition and Wikidata-based linking, targeted sentiment analysis, and consensus-based change-point detection. To enable principled cross-language comparisons and to connect to theories of domestication and cultural…
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