Meaning & Measurement Mini-Conference

John Sonnett--University of Arizona jsonnett@email.arizona.edu Recently I have been interested in developing an approach to data analysis that integrates aggregate-level models with individual-level interpretive understanding. My paper at the Music mini-conference is called Musical Boundaries: A quali-quantitative approach. In it I use Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Correspondence Analysis (CA) to model the intersections of genre configurations and boundary forms (omnivore, univore, etc) in data from the GSS 1993. Based on this model, representative cases were chosen for in-depth narrative analysis, providing empirical referents for theories of cultural cognition. I am interested in using a similar method for text analysis in my dissertation, which will look at news media coverage of the science of global climate change, focusing upon coverage of international scientific assessments and treaty negotiations since 1990. Instead of configurations of genres, I want to map configurations of co-concepts, then use this mapping to select representative articles for interpretation. I would be interested in learning more about other methods which combine formal analysis with detailed interpretation of cases.