CRM 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Critical Criminology, Sampling Frame, Fernwood Publishing
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Understand how content analysis is different from a casual watching/reading/processing of messages and texts. Appreciate the similarities and differences between qualitative and quantitative content analyses. Outline the contexts under which a content analysis may be appropriate. Content analysis researchers examine a class of social artifacts (typically written documents, such as newspaper articles, but can include any texts or artifacts) Social artifacts, messages are considered cultural repositories capturing past and present ideas, beliefs, and understandings about particular issues. Can be applied to virtually any form of communication. But the term content analysis" cannot be applied to any understanding of communication. Does not involve interaction with human subjects. Data being analyzed were not created for the purposes of the research at hand; in. E. g. , newspaper articles, video games, letters of someone famous, promotional fact, was created for a different purpose material for a crime prevention program, laws, policy documents.
