Toward the Integration of Content Analysis and General Methodology

What Gives You a Social Licence? An Exploration of the Social Licence to Operate in the Australian Mining Industry

“…Despite varied definitions, most social scientists would agree that a content analysis is quantitative, "methodical" and "systematic", and employs specifically defined and carefully followed rules, such as that all text must be coded [33]. Discourse analysis, on the other hand, is "not an algorithmic procedure"; it is far more tractable and adaptive, and involves a great deal of qualitative interpretation by the researcher [35].…”

“…For the purposes of this article, content analysis is defined as "any research technique for making inference by systematically and objectively identifying specified characteristics within text" [33] (p. 270). Discourse analysis picks up where content analysis leaves off, investigating the meanings and narratives constructed through choice of language [34].…”

Cultural indicators based on content analysis: a secondary analysis of Sorokin's data on fluctuations of systems of truth

“…2 Recent works on methodological issues in content analysis include Stone et al (1966), Gerbner et al (1969). Holsti (1969), Markoff et al (1974), Kelly andStone (1975) Mochmann (1980), and Krippendorff (1980). 3 Variables which appear to measure what the investigator intends are said to have "face validity".…”

Refugee Quota: Is Estonia Ready to Receive Refugees? A Review of the Literature on Migration and Ethnic Minorities in Estonia

“…A systematic literature review was carried out to analyze and to examine the patterns of existing literatures; content analysis was utilized, as it is a tool that gives the scholars to find out specific concepts within text (Markoff et al, 1975;Neuendorf, 2001;Weber, 1990). This is a process which has been utilized by Bradshaw and Graham (2007) to localize relevant literatures.…”