I was most interested in this response by Harald Klein to a query,:
>That depends what kind of content analysis you want to perform. Do you
just want a
>description what is in text, e.g. a word list, or do you want to build a
system of
>categories and count these?
I am at the stage of reading up on method to decide how to handle 40 text
documents looking for ideology within the text - ie how do the texts
represent the institute from which they came to the public?
I would appreciate comments on this, I think I can do one of two things -
1. count the words which are ideological indicators such as economic,
values, or community type words and see how the counts compare or
2. code the documents and then count these indicators
Problem is as I see it that the coding puts in another lay of
interpretatation, although handled by a computer program eg ATLASTi or
Nudist, it still has my bias in that I select the indicators to be codes -
I still have to decide what my codes are.
Advantage is that I can clarify the ideologies
Opinions please?
Regards,
Diane Westerhuis
Provisional Manager
Staff Development & Continuing Education
James Cook University
Townsville, sunny Australia 4811 http://www.jcu.edu.au/~ccdw
http://www.jcu.edu.au/acsup/staffdev
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