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	Network Text Analysis	Network Agenda-Setting
Field	Communication	Communication
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2002	2011
Originator	Corman et al. (centering resonance analysis); network text tradition	Lei Guo & Maxwell McCombs
Type	Representation and analysis of text as networks of linked concepts	Network-analytic extension of agenda-setting theory
Seminal source	Corman, S. R., Kuhn, T., McPhee, R. D., & Dooley, K. J. (2002). Studying complex discursive systems: Centering resonance analysis of communication. Human Communication Research, 28(2), 157–206.	Guo, L. (2012). The application of social network analysis in agenda-setting research: A methodological exploration. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56(4), 616–631.
Aliases	Text network analysis, Centering resonance analysis, Concept network analysis, Ağ Tabanlı Metin Analizi	Network agenda setting model, Third-level agenda setting, NAS model, Ağ Gündem Belirleme
Related	4	4
Summary	Network text analysis represents the content of text not as counts of words or topics but as a network of concepts linked by their relationships, then applies social-network methods to reveal which ideas are central and how they connect. Centering resonance analysis (CRA), introduced by Corman and colleagues in 2002, is a leading variant that builds concept networks from the noun phrases that structure discourse.	Network agenda-setting (NAS), also called third-level agenda setting, extends classic agenda-setting theory by proposing that news media transfer to the public not only the salience of issues (first level) and of attributes (second level), but the very web of associations among issues and attributes. Introduced by Lei Guo and Maxwell McCombs, the method represents the media agenda and the public agenda as networks and tests whether the media's bundling of elements is reproduced in the public's mind.