Newspaper Content Analysis Essay

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This essay will discuss sampling techniques and tabular findings through content analysis, which is one of the unobtrusive measures, to a selection of news articles (n=271) in relation to funding bodies in science gathered from selected elite newspapers in the United Kingdom published between 1985 and 2013. The research questions are: How many and how long news articles are published with regard to research funding bodies in the UK? And Which fields of science is/are focused in those press coverage? The main aim of this study is to investigate popularity of funding bodies through examining how newspapers in the UK have reported about funding agency firstly reported by quality UK newspapers in 1985. Understanding trends through quantitative content analysis of newspaper in respect to research funding institutes is effective to assess development of the field. I presume that the number and length of funding-body-related articles, in particular natural science, has increased during the period because such organizations have developed and played a significant role.

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A spread sheet in SPSS constitutes all recording units of the analyzed texts by all the applicable data language, categories and numbers in it cells (Krippendorff, 2004). The data is organized through some variables such as newspaper organization, publication date, word counts of the article, position of the news item and the field of science mentioned in the text. The last one, the field of science, is mainly coded by humanities, social science and natural science. For instance, humanities include art and photograph, social science contains education, economy, religion and sociology. Besides natural science is physics, medicine, chemistry, astronomy, environmental research and so

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