Analysis of health communication texts: UK press coverage of debates about assisted dying

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  • Clive Seale Brunel University London (UK).

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.6.6886

Paraules clau:

media texts, data analysis, computer assisted analysis, keyword analysis, text mining

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Conventionally, social researchers analyse media messages by reading text and coding it. This is time consuming and restricts many studies to small samples. Nowadays very large amounts of text are available in electronic form, offering potential insights into the health messages they contain, but which appear daunting to the analyst with limited resources using conventional methods. I explain and illustrate methods for the computer-assisted analysis of media texts, using specialised software (Wordsmith Tools and Wordstat). These allow the analyst to provide a statistical overview of the key features of texts, to compare them (looking at change over time, for example) and to select illustrative quotations that epitomise the trends identified. 

 

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Biografia de l'autor/a

Clive Seale, Brunel University London (UK).

Professor of Sociology at Brunel University in London (UK). He was editor for the journal Sociology of Health & Illness 2006-2012 and is the author of many papers and books such as Media & health and Qualitative research practice . In recent years, his research has focused on end-of-life care and health care communication.  

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2016-06-15

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Seale, C. (2016). Analysis of health communication texts: UK press coverage of debates about assisted dying. Metode Science Studies Jornal, (6), 235–240. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.6.6886
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