Textual Content Analysis Task

See: Content, Analysis Task, Content Analysis, Citation Analysis Task, Bibliometric Analysis Task, Topic Modeling.

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References

2009

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_analysis
  • Content analysis is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the content of communication. Earl Babbie defines it as "the study of recorded human communications, such as books, websites, paintings and laws." It is most commonly used by researchers in the social sciences to analyze recorded transcripts of interviews with participants.
  • Content analysis is also considered a scholarly methodology in the humanities by which texts are studied as to authorship, authenticity, of meaning. This latter subject include philology, hermeneutics, and semiotics.
  • Harold Lasswell formulated the core questions of content analysis: "Who says what, to whom, why, to what extent and with what effect?." Ole Holsti (1969) offers a broad definition of content analysis as "any technique for making inferences by objectively and systematically identifying specified characteristics of messages." Kimberly A. Neuendorf (2002) offers a six-part definition of content analysis:
    • "Content analysis is an indepth analysis using quantitative or qualitative techniques of messages using a scientific method (including attention to objectivity-intersubjectivity, a priori design, reliability, validity, generalizability, replicability, and hypothesis testing) and is not limited as to the types of variables that may be measured or the context in which the messages are created or presented."

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