CRIM 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Google Trends, Content Analysis, Institute Of Historical Research
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Examples: government or agency records and databases, newspapers, graffiti, dumpsters, diaries and personal documents, historical documents, television shows, commercials, movies, magazines, and crime scene forensics. Have concerns about the reactive effect: we use it because. Unobtrusive data collection supplements direct methods of data collection. Essential part of constructivist research, in which all data is relevant. Observations such as those described on previous slide. Digital media, such as data gathered from google trends, or studies of web-based forums. Accretion: buildup of traces of human conduct; e. g. , graffiti. Erosion: what is missing from the evidence of human conduct. Content analysis: systematic analysis of communication found in text, audio, video, or images. proper content analysis will help worthy it being trustworthy: content analysisis the intellectual process of categorizing qualitative textual data into clusters of similar entities, or conceptual categories, to identify consistent patterns and relationships between variables or themes. Qualitative content analysis is sometimes referred to as latent content analysis.
