ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on evaluating a range of methods for dealing with this growing challenge. It begins with synthesizing the literature around the concept of "liquid news" and how it complicates traditional approaches to content analysis. The chapter describes key considerations about the technical aspects of web pages and reviews existing methods for freezing online news content. As scholars of journalism take greater interest in analyzing online news content, they find themselves facing novel methodological challenges. The chapter considers several potential solutions for freezing the flow of liquid news. Put differently, such software can deal with the immediacy of liquid news, though it may fail to deal with its interactive elements. Embracing the paradigm behind liquid journalism presents a number of challenges to content analysis methodology. Content retrieval software like wget and HTTrack are very accessible and are capable of freezing enough aspects of liquid content to be usable in a range of applications.
