  The digitization of the world has also led to a digitization of communication
processes. Traditional research methods fall short in understanding
communication in digital worlds as the scope has become too large in volume,
variety, and velocity to be studied using traditional approaches. In this
paper, we present computational methods and their use in public and mass
communication research and how those could be adapted to professional
communication research. The paper is a proposal for a panel in which the
panelists, each an expert in their field, will present their current work using
computational methods and will discuss transferability of these methods to
professional communication.
