The theoretical-methodological problematization in circulation and platform research 209 was some content produced to be circulated. The predominant verbs are: “says” (5), “speaks” (3), and “suggests” (1), which re- fers to the attribution of the statement to the supposed source. As we have been advocating and it has been the subject of previous reflections, there is a need for methodological experimentation when it comes to collecting, processing, and in- terpreting data. Thus, after collecting the text articles, and mining and processing the data in the free French lexical analysis software Iramuteq8 (Ratinaud, 2014), an analysis was made of what was said in such articles. The software generated a word cloud where the highest incidence is “Coronavirus”, followed by “message.” Figure 1 - Word cloud of news reports 8 Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires
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