Methodological reflection on the use of Modalisa and Iramuteq Software for the study of a corpus of newspapers about anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is a complex multi-factorial disease currently considered as a public health problem by the medical profession. However, media discourses on this subject are relatively recent. This article aims to understand the characteristics of the media coverage of this pathology and the representations produced by the media of this disorder during adolescence while showing how the use of software for automated analysis of textual data can be helpful. For this purpose, we conducted a quantitative and content analysis of a corpus of 131 articles, published between 1995 and 2009, in several French daily newspapers, with the Modalisa software. Then, we used the Iramuteq software to identify lexical worlds structuring the discourses, based on a second more limited corpus.