Dear Ulrike - Charlie mentioned NuDIST. Due to problems with spam, they have changed the name of the software to N6. However they have another program called Nvivo that is particularly for qualitative work. I found the software brilliant and easy to deal with my data but it does cost. It may be too expensive. It is helpful, I used N6 and I could use the logical Boolean functions and a few others to join up and transform data sets, really it was good. The best thing is, unlike a podcast, you can know which narrative streams you are connecting as the texts are entered discretely and you can get a line by line numbering system so you know exactly where you are in the interview or posting. The company is QSR international and it is in English only I susupect but that seems not a problem for you. www.qsrinternational.com/products/productoverview/product_overview.htm They have a 30 day download so you might do that first. Regarding the legalities, yes I would beware of downloading postings without permission of some kind. Cheers, Denise --- Ulrike Pfeil <UlrikePfeil@gmx.net> wrote:
Dear All I am currently starting my PhD in the area of CMC. I am especially interested in the phenomenon of empathy and how it manifests in online communication. In my current study, I investigate message postings from a (quite emotional) discussion board and through grounded theory came up with a detailed categorisation scheme of the content. Apart from the basic statistics with the codings, I would like to relate the patterns I found in the online discussion board to the phenomenon of empathy in offline communication. However, I struggle with the approach I should take. I have read about different kinds of qualitative analysis (like thematic analysis, discourse analysis and some parts of content analysis...) but I am not sure how exactly to go about it. Does anybody have experience with this kind of analysis (relation of coding results to general characteristics of a phenomenon like empathy) or can recommend literature that might help me? It would not be a problem to write about it but I am searching for a more "prescribed procedure". Does anybody know of similar studies? I also thought about using word frequencies and concordances for the analysis - does anybody have any recommendation concerning this? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Kind regards, Ulrike --
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