Using Topic Modeling and NLP Tools for Analyzing Long Covid Coverage by French Press and Twitter

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, a specific form of the disease called “Long Covid” was the subject of debates and contradictory—even conflicting—positions of the stakeholders, until its institutional and public recognition in 2022. The objectives of this study are : (1) analyzing the modalities of construction and progressive visibility of the category “Long Covid” in the media public sphere and in Twitter; (2) to propose a methodology based on topic modeling and NLP tools to conduct a comparative analysis between newspapers and Twitter coverage.