I am currently involved in analysing 400 hard news stories from two
national and two local newspapers concerning the export of live farm
animals to Europe 1990-1996. I am at the stage of preliminary
qualitative discourse analysis, having already undertaken what
most would consider traditonal content analysis (coding into
an SPSS file for length of article , souces cited, position
in paper etc) but I am planning to use NUD*IST 3 in order to fully
explore how the issue is reported in the newspapers and how these
issues changed over time (from issues of welfare of animals to law
and order issues in wake of demonstrations in Shoreham and
Brightlingsea). Firstly, does the list know of any research which has
used nudist for this purpose, as my lit review has drawn a blank, and
Secondly, is nudist the best qual programme for this purpose ? My
coding experience thus far, is of having many nodes for each news
story, as news texts contain many schemas (headline, lead, context
history etc) and of course many themes contained within them (welfare
of animals, police actions, verbal comments). Many thanks in
advance.
John Walls
School of Social and Historical Studies
University of Portsmouth
Milldam
Burnaby Road
POrtsmouth
Hants
PO1 3AS
UK
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