- Topic and Decision
- The specific issue being perceived and the organizational decision the analysis must inform.
- Temporal Window
- The period across which ideas, emotions, voices, and changes in circulation should be observed.
- Corpus Sources
- The documents, consultations, media, platforms, transcripts, records, or user-provided materials entering the analysis.
- Actor Scope
- The audiences, institutions, communities, geographies, cohorts, and perceptual actors included or excluded.
- Source Policy
- Whether the corpus is closed, expanded with additional evidence, or assembled through an autonomous search process.
- Context Boundary
- The event, policy, product, transformation, or social condition that gives each expression its relevant meaning.