Manual or machine? A review of the crisis and disaster literature

Author(s):
Kuipers S, Kantorowicz J., M J.
Published
2019
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

This review aims to map the literature on crisis and disasters by means of a machine-read assessment of the scholarly debate in these domains. The software analyzed titles and abstracts of over one thousand articles of four related crisis and disaster journals —to find out how the software categorizes their content in a set of topics, what the dominant topics of discussion are, how the topics are distributed over the journals, and what profiles the journals de facto have. The review reflects on the advantages and the limits of machine-read coding and analysis vis-à-vis the manual approach. The conclusion offers an agenda for further research and debate.

Date issued
2019
Language
English
Is part of
Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy (2019), Vol. 10, no. 4, p. 388-402
hdl
1887/135627
doi
10.1002/rhc3.12181