[Air-l] Content Analysis software

[Steve Mitchell, MA Ed.]

Mark,

As a start, you might want to investigate TamsAnalyzer
http://educ.kent.edu/~mweinste/tams/software.html as a vehicle for
qualitative analysis of text-based information.

The application, which runs under Mac OS X is available as a free download
from sites such as http://www.macupdate.com As TAMS works with text-based
documents, procedurally it should be possible to reveal web pages as text
(using a web browser's view|source menu function), saving the page as text,
then using TamsAnalyzer to identify unique and mutually exclusive categories
for content analysis.

Steve
-- 
Steve Mitchell, MA Ed.
UP Operations & Continuous Improvement Coordinator
Lorain County Community College
smitchel at lorainccc.edu

> From: "Mark D. Harmon" <mdharmon at utk.edu>
> Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:59:01 -0400
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] Content Analysis software
> 
> Dear fellow researchers,                May 13, 2003
> I am working with a graduate student this summer on a project
> involving children's web sites (sites whose prime intended audience =
> children).  She is interested in doing some content analysis of such sites.
> My question is: what software do you recommend for such a project?  I think
> she is interested primarily in text, but might also look at
> photos/graphics, etc.  On a more general level, I tend to work with Macs.
> Are there Mac content analysis programs for other projects (notably news
> stories and newscast script) and how do these compare to Windows-based
> programs--or even old ASCII/DOS driven programs like VBPro?      --Mark
> Harmon
> 
> Mark D. Harmon, associate professor, Univ. of Tennessee
> Dept. of Broadcasting, 333 Communications & UEB,
> Knoxville, TN  37996-0333
> 865-974-5122 office,  865-974-2814 fax, 865-524-4026 home
> mdharmon at utk.edu         markdharmon at yahoo.com
> 
> 
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