Content Analysis Method Applications in Security Domain

Content analysis method has many applications in security debates; among the most significant of its applications are content analysis of leadership speeches and other high officials in relation to security debates and police forces, determination of type of attitude and level of satisfaction from police forces, foreign medias news content analysis to encounter soft war threats, police forces periodicals content analysis to investigate and understand security issues publication process in these periodicals and etc. Content analysis includes repeatable and systematic test of relational symbols within which conceptual and quantitative values based on measurement valid principles attributed to text, then using statistical methods the relation between those values are analyzed. The most important purposes of this method include communications description and inferences from communication consumption and introduction domain. This method is consisted of two general type of qualitative and quantitative which each one subdivides to different parts (evaluation analysis, occurrence probability analysis). Different stages of content analysis in summary includes: 1- subject circumscription; 2- case study population determination; 3- free observation; 4- finalizating hypotheses and converting them to units and category.