Below is a list of English-language books and monographs on content analysis.
This list includes all titles in print as well as several that have long
been out of print. This list was last updated in August, 2005.
In reverse chronological order...
Riffe, Daniel, Stephen Lacy, and Frederick G. Fico. Analyzing Media Messages: Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research. 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.
Franzosi, Roberto P. From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Krippendorff, Klaus. Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.
Neuendorf, Kimberly A. The Content Analysis Guidebook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002.
West, Mark D., ed. Applications of Computer Content Analysis. Westport, CT: Ablex, 2001.
West, Mark D., ed. Theory, Method, and Practice in Computer Content Analysis. Westport, CT: Ablex, 2001.
Popping, Roel. Computer-assisted Text Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.
Roberts, Carl W., ed. Text Analysis for the Social Sciences: Methods for Drawing Inferences from Texts and Transcripts. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997.
Gottschalk, Louis A. Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior: New Findings and Clinical Applications. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.
Nissan, Ephraim, and Klaus Schmidt, eds. From Information to Knowledge: Conceptual and Content Analysis by Computer. London: Intellect, 1995.
Smith, Charles P., ed. Motivation and Personality: Handbook of Thematic Content Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Weber, Robert Philip. Basic Content Analysis. 2nd ed. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.
Rosengren, Karl Eric, ed. Advances in Content Analysis. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1981.
Carney, T. F. Content Analysis: A Technique for Systematic Inference from Communications. Winnepeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1972.
Gerbner, George, Oli Holsti, Klaus Krippendorff, William Paisley, and Philip J. Stone, eds. The Analysis of Communication Content: Developments in Scientific Theories and Computer Techniques. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1969.
Gottschalk, Louis A., and Goldine C. Gleser. The Measurement of Psychological States Through the Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1969.
Holsti, Oli R. Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969.
Budd, Richard W., Robert K. Thorp, and Lewis Donohew. Content Analysis of Communications. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Stone, Philip J., Dexter C. Dunphy, Marshall S. Smith, and Daniel M. Ogilvie. The General Inquirer: A Computer Approach to Content Analysis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966.
North, Robert C., Ole R. Holsti, M. George Zaninovich, and Dina A. Zinnes. Content Analysis: A Handbook with Applications for the Study of International Crisis. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1963.
Pool, Ithiel de Sola, ed. Trends in Content Analysis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959.
Berelson, Bernard. Content Analysis in Communication Research. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1952.