Hi,
Have a look at my web site (see below) C-I-SAID is designed specifically to
integrate different approaches.
Regards
Alan Cartwright
At 19:32 12/11/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've just joined the list. I'm afraid I have no experience of using either
>a quantitative or qualitative content analysis program, but hopefully
>somebody on the list might be able to help me.
>
>My query is this: my planned study is of a weekly sample of newspapers
>texts over a 5/6 year period. The "quantitative" aim of the study is,
>simply, word counts; that is, to look for the incidence of particular
>words over the course of the study. I also hope to track particular
>word/conceptual associations - the type of thing, that I'm told, is the
>staple of qualitative CA programs. Is there a program that could do BOTH
>of these tasks (perhaps there're several?), with the power, in turn, to
>handle what will be a very large amount of text data?
>
>Nudist is one program that's been recommended to me by others. Its website
>has an older version, the N4 Classic, available to students for £60: would
>this program do the job for me?
>
>I'm sure list participants get requests like this all the time, but if
>someone could help or advise me at all on software choice, it would be
>much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sean Phelan
>PhD Student
>School of Communications
>Dublin City University
Alan Cartwright PhD
Consultant in Interpersonal Research and Training.
Developer Code-A-Text MultiMedia Products
Hon. Senior Lecturer Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Studies.
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