Responding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, "The Semantic Turn" boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on which to state their claims and validate their [...]

Krippendorff introduces social scientists to information theory and explains its application for structural modeling. He discusses key topics such as: how to confirm an information theory model; its use in exploratory research; and how it compares with other approaches such as network analysis, path[...]

Presenting a collection of studies that exemplify what content analysts do and how they solve problems in applying this methodology, this book offers readers additional insights into designing and conducting their own research. It enables readers to learn the process of conducting content analysis r[...]