MAXQDA is then great in identifying overlapping tags (themes), which was a critical aspect for me as I needed to find out who said what, when, and to whom publicly, so I used MAXQDA to look for overlapping tags representing themes and tags representing one or more actors. This is what MAXQDA looks like, with tags (codes) displayed in a document: If you are certain of exact matches in documents, it could be helpful as a feature.
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I ended up with some 330 codes/tags (to identify themes, patterns, and actors) and have assigned them in total almost 9000 times across the dataset.Ĭoding/tagging is manual work there is autocoding in MAXQDA which may help a bit though if you know you are looking for exact keyword matches (see my post above) but as I was looking for themes across a large dataset, not necessarily using the same keywords every single time (this was media coverage after all so people use different words to express the same ideas or thoughts), I did not use it much. I could predict some codes and themes in advance, but the majority of them have surfaced while actually coding/tagging).
I have developed an extensive coding system (both inductive and deductive coding were used, i.e.
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The challenge was that I was faced with many documents to read and go through.Īs mentioned already in this thread, QDA software is great in that you tag (code) themes, patterns, etc. The idea was to find the most salient themes with regard to social, economic and political aspects and other issues surrounding the project and to identify the most prominent actors who were actively promoting or discussing them (it was a case study in communications and public relations). You are probably better off with DEVONthink but perhaps this may someday be helpful to someone else as well so here’s my take on it.Ī bit of a background as I feel understanding the use case is important: I did a content analysis (CA) on about 1300 pieces of media coverage of a particular project, spanning almost 20 years. I’ve been meaning to post this sooner but had been quite busy these days. I am not sure whether this is entirely relevant to your question, but I used MAXQDA and DEVONthink while working on my master’s dissertation last year, so I have some experience with both however, I have used them for different purposes.
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