Abstract
Content analysis of media texts covering crises on practical seminars on political psychology as a necessary condition of the upgrade of the students’ communicative culture (on the example of chemical attack in Ghouta in 2013)
Highlights
Content analysis is an informative method of analysis of political discourse that helps to reveal the psychological contents of the text, factors of creating image of the person who produces the text
“High methodological potential of content analysis is conditioned by the fact that practically any component of media text may serve as a countable unit, both verbal and visual” (Dobrosklonskaya, 2008)
Study of materials has shown that Russia and the USA represent two contrast poles that draw other countries’ attention to comprehend the conflict according to the unity in views, these countries are perceived as the main force that is reinforced by a lot of allies which makes them political
Summary
Content analysis is an informative method of analysis of political discourse that helps to reveal the psychological contents of the text, factors of creating image of the person who produces the text. Content analysis is a quantitative analysis of texts grouped into text masses, its purpose lies in subsequent interpretation of discovered numerical regularity’s contents. Students use this method in their individual work and during practical seminars for discovering and measuring socio-political facts and tendencies reflected in media. The main tool is a table of content analysis with outlined indicators (features) that quantify the meaning. It is important for the units of analysis to represent coordinated categories (Content analysis...). Articles written by political science specialists that characterized the military conflict in Syria were used in this capacity (Alieva, 2015; Borujerdi, 2015; Riad Haddad, 2013; Lobanov, Moiseev, 2015, Makhnev, 2014; Noskova, 2014; Podrabinek, 2013; Stepanova, 2012; Farwell, Arakelian, 2013; etc.)
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