Co-occurrences of trending keywords in popular tech media (01.2016-04.2021)

Sources with weights

• Euractiv 5%
• The Conversation 5%
• Politico Europe 5 %
• IEEE Spectrum 5 %
• Techforge 5%
• Fastcompany 5%
• The Guardian (Tech) 12%
• Arstechnica 5%
• Reuters 5%
• Gizmodo 9%
• ZDNet 9%
• The Register 12%
• The Verge 9%
• TechCrunch 9%

Methodology

• Exploring the relationship between topics
• Pairs of terms which are mentioned together in media articles
• Most trending social issues have been selected (e.g. 'metoo', 'gdpr')
• The co-occurrence analysis is calculated for pairs consisting of emerging social issues and trending uni/bigrams
• The number of times the terms appear in articles together with a social issue is divided by the number of times the social issue is mentioned across all articles
• A single index is constructed for all word pairs by weighted average (taking into account the prevalence of the given source)