Content Analysis Research Articles
Denham, Bryan, and M. Mark Miller. (1993). Public opinion polls during the1988 and 1992 presidential election campaigns: An analysis of horserace and issue coverage in prestige newspapers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Illinois. http://excellent.com.utk.edu/~mmmiller/elecpoll.txt

NOTES: This study looks at reporting of public opinion polls by three newspapers--the LA Times, NY Times and Washington Post--during the 1988 and 1992 presidential election campaigns.  Data were drawn from Lexis-Nexis and analyzed with VBPro and SPSS.

Kunkel, Dale, Cope, Kirstie M., Farinola, Wendy Jo Maynard, Biely, Erica, Rollin, Emma, & Donnerstein, Edward. (1999). Sex on TV: Executive summary.  Kaiser Family Foundation Report. http://www.kff.org/content/archive/1457/

Litkowski, Kenneth C. (1999). Towards a meaning-full comparison of lexical resources. Proceedings of the Asscociation for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on the Lexicon, June 21-22, College Park, Maryland. http://www.clres.com/Comparison_of_Lexical_Resources.html
Miller, M. Mark and Bonnie P. Riechert. (1994). Identifying themes via concept mapping: A new method of content analysis. Paper presented to the Communication Theory and Methodology Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. http://excellent.com.utk.edu/~mmmiller/pestmaps.txt

NOTES: This paper describes concept mapping, as applied to news coverage of pesticides from four magazines.  Data were drawn from an on-line keyword search and analyzed with VBPro and SPSS.
Riechert, Bonnie P. (1995). Science, society, and the media: Associated Press coverage of the Human Genome Project. Paper presented at the Research Symposium of the University of Tennessee College of Communications, Memphis, Tennessee. http://excellent.com.utk.edu/~mmmiller/genome.txt

NOTES: This paper examines Associated Press media coverage of the Human Genome Project.  Data were obtained through a keyword search of the Dialog on-line subscription service and analyzed using VBPro.

Roberts, Donald F., & Christenson, Peter G. (2000). "Here’s looking at you, kid": Alcohol, drugs and tobacco in entertainment media. A literature review prepared for the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. http://www.kff.org/content/2000/3000/

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