content analysis

Communications

(noun)

A methodology in the social sciences for studying the content of communication. Harold Lasswell formulated the core questions of content analysis: "Who says what, to whom, why, to what extent and with what effect? "

Sociology

(noun)

Content analysis or textual analysis is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the content of communication.

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Examples of content analysis in the following topics:

  • Interview Followup

    • Content analysis is an essential part of the follow-up, in order to summarize who said what and when.
    • Content analysis is an essential part of the follow-up to any type of interview.
    • Online synchronous interviews use simple text chat functions that can be recorded or archived for later analysis.
    • Once you have completed your content analysis, you will want to consider how to cite or credit the source(s) of the respondents.
    • Explain how the different interview methods influence content analysis during follow-up

  • Describing Qualitative Data

    • One method of this is through cross-case analysis, which is analysis that involves an examination of more than one case.
    • Cross-case analysis can be further broken down into variable-oriented analysis and case-oriented analysis.
    • It is commonly associated with content analysis.
    • Some qualitative data that is highly structured (e.g., close-end responses from surveys or tightly defined interview questions) is typically coded without additional segmenting of the content.
    • Often referred to as content analysis, the output from these techniques is amenable to many advanced statistical analyses.

  • Iconography

    • Iconography is the scholarly study of the content of images, including identification, description, and interpretation.
    • Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and interpretation of the content of images such as the subjects that are depicted, particulars of composition, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.
    • These early contributions paved the way for encyclopedias, manuals, and other publications useful in identifying the content of art.
    • The distinction he and other scholars drew between particular definitions of "iconography" (put simply, the identification of visual content) and "iconology" (the analysis of the meaning of that content) has not been generally accepted, though it is still used by some writers.
    • Define iconography and interpret or perform an iconographical analysis of an image

  • Internal equity

    • Compensation specialists use two tools to help make these decisions: job analysis and job evaluation.
    • A good job analysis collects sufficient information to adequately identify, define, and describe the content of a job.
    • Since job titles may in and of themselves be misleading, for example, "systems analyst" does not reveal much about the job; the content of the job is more important to the analysis than the title.
    • A job description summarizes the information collected in the job analysis.
    • See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_analysis for more information about job analysis.

  • Overview of Gram-Positive Bacteria and Actinobacteria

    • Actinobacteria are Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content in their DNA and can be terrestrial or aquatic.
    • They are Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content in their DNA and can be terrestrial or aquatic.
    • Analysis of glutamine synthetase sequence has been suggested for their phylogenetic analysis.
    • Unlike the Firmicutes, the other main group of Gram-positive bacteria, they have DNA with a high GC-content, and some Actinomycetes species produce external spores.

  • Actinobacteria (High G + C Gram-Positive Bacteria)

    • Actinobacteria are a group of Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content in their DNA.
    • Actinobacteria are a group of Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content in their DNA.
    • Analysis of glutamine synthetase sequence has been suggested for phylogenetic analysis of Actinobacteria.
    • Unlike the Firmicutes, the other main group of Gram-positive bacteria, they have DNA with a high GC-content, and some Actinomycetes species produce external spores.

  • Classifying Intervals

    • Listen to the differences in the thirds (http://cnx.org/content/m10867/latest/twothirds.mid) and the fifths (http://cnx.org/content/m10867/latest/twofifths.mid) in Figure 4.38.
    • (Please see Beginning Harmonic Analysis for more on that subject. )
    • Listen to the octave (http://cnx.org/content/m10867/latest/P8.mp3), perfect fourth (http://cnx.org/content/m10867/latest/P4.mp3), and perfect fifth (http://cnx.org/content/m10867/latest/P5.mp3).

  • Introduction to Major Keys and Scales

    • Note: If you must determine whether a piece of music is major or minor, and cannot tell just by listening, you may have to do some simple harmonic analysis in order to decide.

  • Water Content in the Body

    • In physiology, body water is the water content of the human body.
    • All cells in the human body are made mostly of water content in their cytoplasm.
    • Water content regulation is one of the most important parts of homeostasis due to its influence on blood pressure and cardiac output.
    • In bioelectrical impedance analysis, a person's hydration level is calculated from high precision measurements of the opposition to the flow of an electric current through body tissues.

  • Tonal Center

    • (For more information about the tonic chord and its relationship to other chords in a key, please see Beginning Harmonic Analysis. )