David Weaver and Bruce Bimber, “Finding News Stories: A Comparison of Searches Using
5
LexisNexis and Google News,”
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
85 (autumn 2008): 515-
530.
Jo Ellen Stryker, Ricardo J. Wray, Robert C. Hornik, and Itzik Yanovitzky, “Validation of Database
Search Terms for Content Analysis: The Case of Cancer News Coverage,”
Journalism & Mass
Communication Quarterly
83 (summer 2006): 413-430.
Liwen Vaughan and Yanjun Zhang, “Equal Representation by Search Engines? A Comparison of
Websites across Countries,”
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
12 (April 2007): 888-909.
Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Alfred Hermida, "Content Analysis in an Era
of Big Data: A Hybrid Approach to Computational and Manual Methods,"
Journal of Broadcasting &
Electronic Media
57 (1, 2013): 34-52.
Michael Karlsson, “Charting the Liquidity of Online News: Moving Towards (sic) a Method for
Content Analysis of Online News,”
International Communication Gazette
74 (4, 2012): 385-402.
Stephen Lacy, Brendan R. Watson, Daniel Riffe, and Jennette P. Lovejoy, “Issues and Best
Practices in Content Analysis,”
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
92 (winter 2015): 791-811.
Lei Guo, Chris J. Vargo, Zixuan Pan, Weicong Ding, and Prakash Ishwar, “Big Social Data
Analytics in Journalism and Mass Communication: Comparing Dictionary-based Text Analysis and
Unsupervised Topic Modeling,”
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
93 (summer 2016): 332-
359.
Week of Feb. 7:
Variables, Variable Relationships and Content Analysis Research Design.
Content
Analysis Units and Measurement Issues and Introduction to Measurement Reliability.
Assignment 4: Concepts and Measures due noon Monday, Feb. 13.
Readings
: Riffe, Lacy, and Fico, Ch. 4
Daniel Riffe, “Data Analysis and SPSS Programs for Basic Statistics,” in G.H.
Stempel III, D. H. Weaver, & G.C. Wilhoit (Eds.),
Mass Communication Research and Theory
(Boston,:
Allyn & Bacon, 2003).
Week of Feb. 14
: Deduction, Causal Inference, and Conceptual Issues:
Relation to Theory and Past
Research; Operationalization and Coding Protocols and the link to Data Collection.
Assignment 5: First draft of Coding Protocol and Coding Sheet (concepts and operational
definitions) due noon Monday, Feb. 20.
Readings:
Riffe, Lacy, and Fico, Ch. 6
Cheryl Law and Magdala Peixoto Labre, “Cultural Standards of Attractiveness: A
Thirty-year Look at Changes in Male Images in Magazines,”
Journalism & Mass Communication
Quarterly
79 (autumn 2002): 697-711.
Mark Tremayne, “The Web of Context: Applying Network Theory to the Use of Hyperlinks in
Journalism on the Web,”
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
81 (summer 2004): 237-253.
Dennis T. Lowry, “Network TV News Framing of Good vs. Bad Economic News under Democrat
and Republican Presidents: A Lexical Analysis of Political Bias,”
Journalism & Mass Communication
Quarterly
85 (autumn 2008): 483-499.
