METHODS OF RESEARCH
DOCUMENTARY AND CONTENT ANALYSIS
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It increases the reliability of the coding measures
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It is a good way of finding out about the journalist’s favorite words
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Emotive words can be used excessively to provoke a moral panic
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It shows which words are most common in the English language
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Detailed explanation-1: -A word frequency count provides researchers with an overall sense of the most common (usually) semantic-based words in a data set, document, text corpus, microblogging stream, or research set (or some mix of the data).
Detailed explanation-2: -Qualitative research aims to get a better understanding through first hand experience, truthful reporting, and quotations of actual conversations. It aims to understand how the participants derive meaning from their surroundings, and how their meaning influences their behavior.
Detailed explanation-3: -Using content analysis, researchers can quantify and analyze the presence, meanings, and relationships of such certain words, themes, or concepts. As an example, researchers can evaluate language used within a news article to search for bias or partiality.
Detailed explanation-4: -Conducting in-depth interviews is one of the most common qualitative research methods. It is a personal interview that is carried out with one respondent at a time.