Theory-Building with Nud.Ist: Using Computer Assisted Qualitative Analysis in a Media Case Study

Katie MacMillan and Shelley McLachlan

Sociological Research Online, 1999, vol. 4, issue 2, 1-14

Abstract: We examine Nud.ist software in terms of its ëtheory-buildingí properties in order to access the extent to which Nud.ist can be used, not only to develop content categories, but also to develop a research method using two potentially incompatible approaches. The methods, content analysis and discourse analysis, were used in a single case study on education news in the press. Our case study, on how news about education issues gets constructed and framed by the national press into generalized themes and narratives, was initially informed by an extensive content analysis of the news over a twelve month period. Having identified variations in press coverage, we then collected large quantities of media text on education issues, using Nud.ist to organize and to recode the subsequent data. Having categorized the news extracts our aim was to then explore whether Nud.ist could assist a discourse analysis of the text.

Keywords: Content Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Education; Framing; Media; Metanarratives; Nudist; Theory-building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.229

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