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Thematic coding & analysis -- what are we looking for when tracking narrative change / what tools will we use? #2

Open kaclaborn opened 3 years ago

kaclaborn commented 3 years ago

Unit of analysis?

What theory do we want to pull in / build out in thematic coding? What terms will nest within each code?

What analytical tools do we want to use? Word counts, collocation/co-occurrence?

KristaLawless commented 3 years ago

Are we doing thematic coding, keyword coding, or some combination?

We could use each document as the unit of analysis. Then either do a count of the occurrence of our keywords or manually go in and assign a theme to blocks of text like paragraphs or do it based on a sentence. MAXQDA is an excellent software for text and content analysis- it is user friendly too.

I think if we use a document as the unit of analysis, we should each do 5. We will also need to test the Cohen's Kappa to ensure we have interrater reliability that is acceptable for analysis and journal publication.

kaclaborn commented 3 years ago

I was thinking of doing much more computational text analysis, rather than manual word or code counting, but maybe there's room to do a bit of a hybrid approach (so that we can get a sense of quantity / word counts / collocations, etc.) and also a more rich sense of important documents and sentiments (using thematic coding, etc.).

kaclaborn commented 3 years ago

Sentiments around sea ice change: emotions, perceptions.

Unit of analysis: aggregate metrics by year / year period (e.g., 5 year periods, etc.).

Descriptive / exploratory: word counts, collocation, content analysis (Adam et al. 2016)