Vetting High Tech Content Analysis: A Comparison of Three Recent Books

Abstract

With technological advances in the area of content analysis come theoretical and practical challenges. This review examines three different approaches to the use of technology in content analysis, examining them for their conceptual definitions of content analysis, their treatment of methodological issues, particularly those relating to big data and the Internet, and their perspectives on the use of CATA. Recommendations for the use of these three books by researchers and teachers conclude the review.

Keywords:

• Content Analysis
• CATA (Computer Assisted Text Analysis)
• Validity
• Reliability
• Electronic databases
• Technology
• Coding

Notes

[1] See Dan Riffe, Stephen Lacy and Frederick G. Fico, Analyzing Media Messages: Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005), 125.

[2] Seehttp://www.afhayes.com/public/cmm2007.pdf

[3] See Klaus Krippendorff and Mary Angela Bock eds., The Content Analysis Reader (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009).