Discourse analysis: an introduction. Methods of text and discourse analysis. Content Analysis. Bernard Berelson defined Content Analysis as "a research technique for the objective, systematic, and quantitative description of manifest content of communications" (Berelson, 74). Content analysis is a research tool focused on the actual content and internal features of media.
It is used to determine the presence of certain words, concepts, themes, phrases, characters, or sentences within texts or sets of texts and to quantify this presence in an objective manner. Texts can be defined broadly as books, book chapters, essays, interviews, discussions, newspaper headlines and articles, historical documents, speeches, conversations, advertising, theater, informal conversation, or really any occurrence of communicative language.
Content analysis is a product of the electronic age. Uses of Content Analysis top | home Types of Content Analysis There are two general categories of content analysis: conceptual analysis and relational analysis. Issues of Reliability and Validity. Bibliographies, books and articles on content analysis. A Bibliography of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Searchable Bibliography of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing; contains 2568 references, most recent reference from 1989; download possible in BibTeX format (161kB gzip’ed). This bibliography is part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection by Alf-Christian Achilles. CAQDAS bibliography A bibliography on computer software and qualitative data. This bibliography is updated regularly.
The CLCWeb Library for Research and Information in Comparative Literature and Culture Contains several bibliographies for comparative literature and culture composed by Steven Totosy. Content Analysis: Annotated Bibliography The bibliography of the Colorado State University’s online learning environment, the Writing Studio, lists resources on the conduction of content analysis, methodological issues, and research examples. Content Analysis in Anthropological Research A listing of Dr. Developing Linguistic Corpora. Basic content analysis. Software for content analysis and text analysis: Qualitative ana. Annotations for Mac Mac software to analyse documents by adding and organising highlights, tags or notes on text passages. ATLAS.ti Computer software for the support of text interpretation, text management and the extraction of conceptual knowledge from documents (theory building); supports the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data.
Application areas include social sciences, economics, educational sciences, criminology, market research, quality management, knowledge acquisition, and theology. A demo version is provided via download. CAQDAS Comparison A comparative overview of the most important computer-assisted qualitative data analyses software packages, ordered by product functions. CDC EZ-Text The software to assist researchers create, manage, and analyze semi-structured qualitative databases is available free of charge. Choosing a CAQDAS Package Code-A-Text Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) Networking Project Dedoose.