General Inquirer Rachel Campbell, Shawna Jackson, Lisa Tselebidis General Inquirer: Basics Created by Philip Stone in the 1960s Provides a word count Uses the.
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General Inquirer Rachel Campbell, Shawna Jackson, Lisa Tselebidis General Inquirer: Basics Created by Philip Stone in the 1960s Provides a word count Uses the Harvard IV-4 dictionary and Lasswell dictionary content analysis categories A total of 182 dictionary categories Homepage: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~inquirer/ http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~inquirer/homecat.htm Five categories based on social cognition work of Semin and Fiedler User can also create customized dictionaries General Inquirer: Basics Limited version can be found at: http://www.webuse.umd.edu:9090/ Full version can be obtained through Dr. Neuendorf or found in the CATI lab for Cleveland State University students General Inquirer: Harvard IV-4 categories Examples Reflect Charles Osgood’s semantic differential findings Pstv – 1045 positive words Basic language universals Subset of 557 words are tagged Affil – indicates affiliation or supportiveness Ngtv – 1160 negative words Subset of 833 words are tagged Hostile – indicates attitude or concern with hostility and aggressiveness General Inquirer: Harvard IV-4 categories Strong – 1902 words implying strength Subset of 689 words tagged Power – indicate concern with power, control, or authority Weak – 755 words implying weakness Subset of 284 words tagged Submit – indicate submission, dependence, vulnerability, withdrawal Active – 2045 words implying active orientation Passive – 911 words indicating passive orientation General Inquirer: Lasswell value dictionaries Four deference domains: power, rectitude, respect, affiliation Four welfare domains: wealth, well-being, enlightenment, skill Example of Power: PowGain = Power Gain, 65 words about power increasing PowLoss = Power Loss, 109 words of power decreasing PowEnds = Power Ends, 30 words about the goals of the power process PowAren = Power Arenas, 53 referring to political places and environments (not nation-states) General Inquirer: Purpose Purpose: Analyze content of three different reports on the Republican primary debate from September 22, 2011 CNN (national) Cleveland Plain Dealer (local) San Jose Mercury News (local) General Inquirer: Instructions Before we get started… Input Convert all of your articles in to .txt files Place all .txt files in a folder called “testdir”, and save it to the General Inquirer folder Output Create a blank excel sheet titled Output.xls and save it to the General Inquirer folder General Inquirer: Instructions Main screen General Inquirer: Instructions - Input Type “testdir” in the Input field if it not already there General Inquirer: Instructions - Output Click Note: Browse and locate the output.xls file no changes are made to the Dictionary field. General Inquirer: Instructions - Run Once your Input and Output are set, click Run. General Inquirer: Instructions – Results Relocate the Output.xls file and click open General Inquirer: Instructions – Results – Tags (example shows one case only) General Inquirer: Instructions – Results - Tags Word Tags for GOP debate coverage 160 140 120 100 80 CNN PD MercuryNews 60 40 20 Po s Ne itiv ga ti v Ps tv Af fil Ng Ho tv st i St le ro n Po g we r W ea Su k bm Ac it ti Pa ve ss ive 0 MercuryNews CNN General Inquirer: Instructions – Results - Tags The news articles used mostly strong and active words Weak and submissive words were rarely used Overall, results are what one would expect of a candidate in a debate He or she will want to appear strong and capable with faith in his or her ideals General Inquirer: Instructions – Word Count Use the same process as Tags, but make sure the Words option is selected General Inquirer: Instructions – Results - Word Count General Inquirer: Instructions – Results - Word Count The most used words relevant to the debate were: candidate, debate, Florida, security, social, state, Perry, Romney The A most used words overall were: the, are, to, of, said… limitation of the word count is that you have to scan the results to eliminate unnecessary words