Useful Readings
Content Analysis
- Roberts, Carl W. 2001.
Content Analysis, in: Neil J.
Smelser & Paul B. Baltes (eds.). International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral
Sciences. Amsterdam et al.: Elsevier.
Concise introduction into the concept of Content Analysis. - Krippendorff, Klaus. 2004. Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology. 2nd ed. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage.
The currently most frequently used textbook for Content Analysis. - Weber, Robert Philip. 1990. Basic Content Analysis. 2nd ed., Newbury Park, CA: Sage
1990.
Short overview of methodologies from the Sage green methods series. Should be read in conjunction with a more comprehensive textbook such as Krippendorff's. - Holsti, Oli R. 1969. Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
- Berelson, Bernard. 1952. Content Analysis in Communication Research. Glencoe, IL: Free
Press.
The classical formulation of Content Analysis, which paved the road for the quantitative interpretation of content analysis.
Qualitative Content Analysis
- Kracauer, Siegfried. 1952. The challenge of qualitative content analysis. Public Opinion Quarterly 16: 631-642.
- Mayring, Philipp. 2000. Qualiative Content Analysis. Forum: Qualitative Research 1 (2), http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-00/2-00mayring-e.htm, last accessed: April 19, 2004.
Gläser, Jochen & Grit
Laudel. 1999. Theoriegeleitete Textanalyse? Das Potential
einer
variablenorientierten qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse. WZB Working Papers P-99-401.
Related Websites
- The Content Analysis Guidebook Online
by Kimberly A. Neuendorf at Cleveland State University, OH. - Content Analysis (Colorado
State
University)
Very brief overview of techniques in Content Analysis.
People (in alphabetical order)
- Klaus Krippendorff (University of Pennsylvenia)
- Carl W. Roberts (Iowa State University)
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