The Content Analysis Guidebook Online

Content Analysis Resources

This section contains general information about The Content Analysis Guidebook, including a chapter on the history of content analysis that appeared in the 1st edition of the book. Links to other content analysis resources (e.g., websites, articles, manuscripts) are also provided.

Message Archives and Corpora

This section of the site contains links to archive web sites, arranged according to interest area (with an emphasis on media archives). Archive sites with downloadable messages are listed first, followed by “information only” web sites.

Reliability

This section provides options for the computer-based calculation of inter-coder reliability.

Human Coding Sample Materials

This section contains sample coding materials from past studies on a variety of topics, including content analyses of television, film, and advertising. The coding materials for several studies mentioned in this text (e.g., Neuendorf et al., 2010; Smith, 1999) are included here. The codebooks and coding forms are arranged by author name and project title.

Introduction to Computer-Aided Content Analysis (CATA)

This section contains information on computer content analysis software. All of the programs from Resource 1 are described here; further information and demos can be obtained through links to the official program web sites, which are included. In addition, the information on the quantitative computer text analysis software is augmented with evaluation results from tests conducted on selected programs by a research team as well as sample dictionaries, runs, and output.