The Content Analysis Reader

Part 1: History and Conception of Content Analysis Introduction Quantitative Semantics in 18th Century Sweden - Karin Dovring Towards a Sociology of the Press: An Early Proposal for Content Analysis - Max Weber A Study of a New York Daily - Bryon C. Mathews The Scientific Analysis of the Press - Alvan A. Tenney Propaganda Analysis: A Case Study From World War II - Alexander L. George Letters From Jenny - Gordon W. Allport Impressionistic Content Analysis: Word Counting in Popular Media - Mary Angela Bock Part 2: Unitizing and Sampling Introduction "Good" Organizational Reasons for "Bad" Clinic Records - Harold Garfinkel Effectiveness of Random, Consecutive Day and Constructed Week Sampling - Daniel Riffe, Charles F. Aust, Stephen R. Lacy The Challenege of Applying Content Analysis to the World Wide Web - Sally J. McMillan Airplane Fatalities After Newspaper Stories About Murder and Suicide - David P. Phillips Interaction Process Analysis - Robert F. Bales Structural Analysis of Film - Siegfried Kracauer The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media - Maxwell E. McCombs, Donald L. Shaw Part 3: Inferences and Analytical Constructs Introduction Contingency Analysis: Validating Evidence and Process - Charles E. Osgood Four Types of Inference From Documents to Events - Vernon K. Dibble Politburo Images of Stalin - Nathan Leites, Elsa Bernaut, Raymond L. Garthoff Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Content Analysis - Alexander George Evaluative Assertion Analysis - Ole R. Holsti An Ecology of Text: Memes, Competition, and Niche Behavior - Michael L. Best Identifying the Unknown Communicator in Painting, Literature and Music - William J. Paisley Wheels of Time and the Interdependence of Value Change in America - J. Zvi Namenwirth Inferring the Readability of Text - Klaus Krippendorff Part 4: Coders and Coding Introduction Codebook Development for Team-Based Qualitative Analysis - Kathleen M. MacQueen, Eleanor McLellan, Kelly Kay, Bobby Milstein Coder Training: Explicit Instruction and Implicit Socialization? - Tony Hak, Ton Bernts The Future of Coders: Human Judgments in a World of Sophisticated Software - Gilbert Shapiro Comparing Human Coding and a Computer-Assisted Method - Brigitte L. Nacos, Robert Y. Shapiro, John T. Young, David P. Fan, Torsten Kjellstrand, Craig McCaa Coding Instructions: An Example - Joseph N. Cappella, Danielle J. Mittermaier, Judith Weiner, Lee Humphreys, Tiara Falcone, Mario Giorno Part 5: Categories and Data Languages Introduction Petitions and Prayers: An Analysis of Persuasive Appeals - Elihu Katz, Michael Gurevitch, Brenda Danet, Tsiyona Peled Changing National Forest Values - David N. Bengston, Zhi Xu The World Attention Survey - Harold D. Lasswell Constructing Content Analysis Scales in Counseling Research - Linda L. Viney, Peter Caputi How Often Is Often? - Milton Hakel Relative Risk in the News Media: A Quantification of Misrepresentation - Karen Frost, Erica Frank, Edward Maibach Television Violence: A Coding Scheme - Anu Mustonen, Lea Pulkkinen The Opinions of Little Orphan Annie and Her Friends - Lyle W. Shannon Gender Equity in Management Education: Inferences From Test Bank Questions - Randi L. Sims Mathematics Computer Software Characteristics and Gender - Kelly K. Chappell A Content Analysis of Music Videos - Richard L. Baxter, Cynthia De Riemer, Ann Landini, Larry Leslie, Michael W. Singletary Part 6: Reliability and Validity Introduction Scott's Pi: Reliability for Nominal Scale Coding - William A. Scott Testing the Reliability of Content Analysis Data: What Is Involved and Why - Klaus Krippendorff The Problem of Validating Content Analysis - Irving Janis Modes of Observation and the Validation of Interaction Analysis Schemes - M. Scott Poole, Joseph P. Folger Importance in Content Analysis: A Validity Problem - Milton Stewart The Gerbner Violence Profile: A Public Debate in Four Parts - David M. Blank, George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Marilyn Jackson-Beeck, Suzanne Jeffries-Fox, Nancy Signorielli Part 7: Computer-Aided Content Analysis Introduction Some Characteristics of Genuine Versus Simulated Suicide Notes - Daniel M. Ogilvie, Philip J. Stone, Edwin S. Shneidman Analyzing Literary and Non-Literary Texts - Michael E. Palmquist, Kathleen Carley, Thomas A. Dale CATPAC for Text Analysis: Presidential Debates - Marya L. Doerfel, George A. Barnett Inferences From Word Networks in Messages - James A. Danowski Reasoning in Economic Discourse: A Network Approach to the Dutch Press - Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Jan A. de Ridder, Ewald M. Rietberg Predictions of Public Opinion on the Spread of AIDS - David P. Fan, Gregory McAvoy Computerized Text Analysis of Al-Qaeda Transcripts - James W. Pennebaker, Cindy K. Chung