CMNS 801 - Computer assisted content analysis How to qualitatively analyze medium to large corpus of texts

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1. Computer assisted content analysis How to qualitatively analyze medium to large corpus of texts Alberto Lusoli, Simon Fraser University. School of Communication
2. Manual coding for Content Analysis Automated coding Computer-assisted coding Broad textual analysis
3. Ideal for qualitative and idiographic inquiries Interviews Field notes Meeting minutes Suitable for small to medium corpus of data unsuitable for analyzing large corpus of texts Social media data Longitudinal data
4. Creating a course project
5. Content analysis Categories: Uniquely tailored to available texts and problems Share your nodes!
6. Computer based analysis Suitable for quantitative studies High reliability Validity might be limited
7. Automated analysis in Nvivo Sentiment Autocoding Download the project here: http://bit.ly/ca-nvivo-pc http://bit.ly/ca-nvivo-mac
8. Using software to facilitate the human coding of large corpus of texts
9. Example Studying historical digital archives. Investigation on Harvard Business School pedagogy
10. Example Theory Historical documents OCR Semi-automated codification Analysis Discussion
11. Content analysis with Nvivo An example with a large dataset of tweets collected automatically (more on this next week) Download the project here: http://bit.ly/ca-nvivo-pc http://bit.ly/ca-nvivo-mac
13. How to qualitatively analyze a dataset? Just like any other corpus of text. By coding it (inductively or deductively).
19. For questions or help, write me at: alusoli@sfu.ca THANK YOU