Methods for the Analysis of Media Contents

This online resource was one of the outputs of a project funded by the ESRC Research Methods Programme (RMP). The project aimed to evaluate and develop methods for the analysis of media content, in particular news. The substantive concern is with the portrayal of policy, politics and politicians, but this will also enable the application and methodological assessment of innovative approaches to media content analysis. Detailed description of the project.

On these pages, both original research and links to resources for the analyses of media content are offered. The resources cover the entire research process, covering the collection of data, its preparation of data for analysis, the selection of the analytical approach and its corresponding methodological tools.

This online resource was developed by a team based at the Loughborough University Department of Social Sciences.