Books and monographs on content analysis
Below is a list of English-language books and monographs on content analysis. This list includes all titles still in print as well as several that have long been out of print. This list was last updated in April, 1999.
Berelson, Bernard. Content Analysis in Communication Research. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1952.
Budd, Richard W., Robert K. Thorp, and Lewis Donohew. Content Analysis of Communications. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Carney, T. F. Content Analysis: A Technique for Systematic Inference from Communications. Winnepeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1972.
Gerbner, George, Oli Holsti, Klaus Krippendorff, William Paisley, and Philip J. Stone, eds. The Analysis of Communication Content: Developments in Scientific Theories and Computer Techniques. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1969.
Gottschalk, Louis A. Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior: New Findings and Clinical Applications. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.
Gottschalk, Louis A., and Goldine C. Gleser. The Measurement of Psychological States Through the Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1969.
Holsti, Oli R. Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969.
Krippendorff, Klaus. Content Analysis: An Introduction to its Methodology. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1980.
Markel, Norman. Semiotic Psychology: Speech as an Index of Emotions and Attitudes. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.
Nissan, Ephraim, and Klaus Schmidt, eds. From Information to Knowledge: Conceptual and Content Analysis by Computer. London: Intellect, 1995.
North, Robert C., Ole R. Holsti, M. George Zaninovich, and Dina A. Zinnes. Content Analysis: A Handbook with Applications for the Study of International Crisis. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1963.
Pool, Ithiel de Sola, ed. Trends in Content Analysis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959.
Riffe, Daniel, Stephen Lacy, and Frederick G. Fico. Analyzing Media Messages: Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.
Roberts, Carl W., ed. Text Analysis for the Social Sciences: Methods for Drawing Inferences from Texts and Transcripts. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997.
Rosengren, Karl Eric, ed. Advances in Content Analysis. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1981.
Smith, Charles P., ed. Motivation and Personality: Handbook of Thematic Content Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Stone, Philip J., Dexter C. Dunphy, Marshall S. Smith, and Daniel M. Ogilvie. The General Inquirer: A Computer Approach to Content Analysis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966.
Weber, Robert Philip. Basic Content Analysis. 2nd ed. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.
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