A Content Analysis of Content Analyses: Twenty-Five Years of Journalism Quarterly

Abstract

Examination of the increasing number of articles employing quantitative content analysis in 1971–95 Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly showed primary focus on news/editorial content in U.S. media. Nearly half examined newspapers, and half were coauthored. Most used convenience or purposive samples. Few involved a second research method or extra-media data, explicit theoretical grounding, or research questions or hypotheses. Half reported intercoder reliability, and two-fifths used only descriptive statistics. Analysis of trends shows growth in coauthorship and reporting of reliability, and increasing emphasis on more sophisticated statistical analysis. No parallel trend exists, however, in use of explicit hypotheses/research questions or theoretical grounding.

Executive positions involved in white‐collar crime

“…All letters were mailed to the CFO, and most of the respondents were CFOs, while some were CEOs and financial controllers. classified by applying content analysis (Riffe and Freitag, 1997). In the first round of text reading, potential topics were identified.…”

Police misconduct and crime: bad apples or systems failure?

“…These documents were studied by content analysis (Riffe and Freitag, 1997). Some of the variables were easy to find in the documents, such as role, age, and gender.…”

From Introducing the World Wide Web to Teaching Advertising in the Digital Age: A Content Analysis of the past Twenty Years of the Journal of Advertising Education

“…This overview of articles in JAE and previous analyses of education and mass communication scholarship (Ductor, 2015;Franceschet & Costantini, 2010;Musambira & Nesta, 2010;Riffe & Freitag, 1997) Along with Boolean phrases in the abstract containing "Advertising," the researchers collected a sample of the relevant articles that covered advertising education specifically. Two types of coding were used within the content analysis of JAE, JMCE and MER.…”