I am beginning a project analysing print media/web-based articles on poverty/welfare benefits. I have a great collection of articles in my project using NCapture. I would appreciate any advice on any traps/pitfalls others have found using this program.
I will be using Nvivo to conduct some textual analysis so I will be interested in what you learn.
I am also interested, although, unfortunately, have no experience in using these programs.
We used nvivo for print media analysis in a recent paper (Bohensky, E.L., Leitch, A.M. (2013) Framing the flood: a media analysis of themes of resilience in the 2011 Brisbane flood. Regional Environmental Change, 14.) although we didn't used Ncapture so am interested how that goes.
My main issue is that I still needed to keep an excel file of media articles to keep track of the quantitative aspects. I would be interested if you can do this better within nvivo.
Good luck with your analysis!
Hi Anne- thanks so much for this answer and the reference. I have downloaded the article to read and will also send details to a colleague who is interested in resilience and disasters.
Hi, QSR have told me I am a 'power user' of NVIVO 10 so happy to try share what I'm learning.
I have a lot of social media in my research but NCapture has not been able to do what it is designed to do in terms of capturing twitter / Facebook images and their associated captions (I've tried IE, Chrome and Mozilla). So currently I have to download the photo and record the caption. I find the picture quality is better when I do this in Word, instead of NVIVO. However if I then want to import that word document as a memo into NVIVO - to keep all my writing/analysis in one library - the pictures in Word seem to overload NVIVO and it freezes/shuts down, or imports the document but the pictures are stretched beyond use.
QSR are apparently making some updates to fix these problems. For the mean time, I try to have a tight system to retrieve my information through NVIVO and Word - but two 'libraries' is not ideal.
I would like to add, on some occasions NCapture works - and it is so good when it does!! So when the bugs are fixed, it will be great.
But all that being said - it sounds like you just want NCapture for PDF versions of online articles, so I don't foresee you having the problems I have had specific to social media?
Here are some information on how to perform media content analysis with a qualitative software: http://provalisresearch.com/solutions/applications/What-is-Media-Framing-Analysis/
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