Content Analysis, as the name suggest, is the analysis of
content - the content can be written, pictorial, audio,
audio-visual recordings etc.
To udentify whether a party is more supportive of free speech or
not, we can do the following:
- Fix a time frame. Let's say one year- it is neither too short
nor too long for policy changes to happen.
- Identify the content- content can be speeches, senate
proceedings, private member bills, questions asked to senators, how
did they reacted etc. For example, I have decided that my content
will be the following:
- Top 5 newspapers as per circulation
- Identifying primte time news of certain channels
- All policy documents discussed in senate and houses
- After that, I will identify all the cases which relates to free
speech pertaining to members of both political parties.
- After that, I will sort the cases party wise and the responses
will be classified as positive to free speech or negative to free
speech. For example, if during a press briefer, a reporter asks a
valid question to a senator and instead of senator replying him
starts attributing wrong motives to questioner or calling him bigot
is a negative instance of free speech. On the other hand, if a
reporter questions a senator on his policies in a news paper and a
senator responds him is a sign of free press and free thought. If
the senator instead of responding him starts either influencing the
newspaper using his office etc will be a sign of "absence of free
speech".
- In this way, a consolidated score will help me in analysing the
problem statement.
The "Unit of Observation" here is a particular behaviour
instance.