Editing Internet Research Methods (Spring 2016) (section)

=== Week 3: Monday April 11: Textual Analyses ===

'''Facilitator:''' Adam

'''Required Readings:'''

* McMillan, S. J. (2000). [http://jmq.sagepub.com/content/77/1/80.short The microscope and the moving target: The challenge of applying content analysis to the World Wide Web.] Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 77(1), 80-98. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Mishne, Gilad and Natalie Glance (2006), “[http://www.ambuehler.ethz.ch/CDstore/www2006/www.blogpulse.com/www2006-workshop/papers/wwe2006-blogcomments.pdf Leave a reply: An analysis of weblog comments].” Third Annual Conference on the Weblogging Ecosystem, at WWW 2006. ''[Free Online]''
* Grimmer, J., & Stewart, B. M. (2013). [https://pan.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/3/267.full Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts.] Political Analysis. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* DiMaggio, P., Nag, M., & Blei, D. (2013). [http://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2013.08.004 Exploiting affinities between topic modeling and the sociological perspective on culture: Application to newspaper coverage of U.S. government arts funding.] Poetics, 41(6), 570–606. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''

'''Optional Readings:'''

I'm assuming you have at least a rough familiarity with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_analysis content analysis] as a methodology. If your not as comfortable with this, check out the Wikipedia article to start. These help provide more of a background into content analysis (in general, and online):

* Van Selm, Martine & Jankowski, Nick, (2005) "[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/36066292/download?download_frd=1 Content Analysis of Internet-Based Documents.]" Unpublished Manuscript. ''[Available in Canvas]''
* Neuendorf, K. A. (2002). The content analysis guidebook. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. ''[Available from Instructor]''
* Krippendorff, K. (2005). Content analysis: an introduction to its methodology. Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi: Sage. ''[Available from Instructor]''

Examples of more traditional content analysis using online content:

* Trammell, K. D., Tarkowski, A., Hofmokl, J., & Sapp, A. M. (2006). [http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00032.x Rzeczpospolita blogów (Republic of Blog): Examining Polish Bloggers Through Content Analysis.] Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), 702–722. ''[Free Online]''
* Woolley, J. K., Limperos, A. M., & Oliver, M. B. (2010). [http://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2010.516864 The 2008 Presidential Election, 2.0: A Content Analysis of User-Generated Political Facebook Groups.] Mass Communication and Society, 13(5), 631–652. ''[Available from UW Libraries]'''

Another example of topic modeling, but from political science:

* Barberá, P., Bonneau, R., Egan, P., Jost, J. T., Nagler, J., & Tucker, J. (2014). [http://smapp.nyu.edu/SMAPP_Website_Papers_Articles/leadersAndFollowersMeasuringPolitical.pdf Leaders or Followers? Measuring Political Responsiveness in the US Congress Using Social Media Data.] Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. ''[Free Online]''