Positioning in Cyberspace: Evaluating Bestselling Authors' Online Communicated Brand Personalities Using Computer-aided Content Analysis

Author(s)

Robert Ankomah Opoku
L. F. Pitt
Russell Abratt, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

ORCID

Rusell Abratt0000-0002-5385-0936

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

South African Journal of Business Management

ISSN

2078-5585

Publication Date

12-2007

Abstract/Excerpt

This study employs a computer-aided text analysis technique to explore whether bestselling authors communicate Aaker's brand personality in the online environment. We argue that content analysis facilitated by a computer is relatively reliable and less tedious than that performed by human coders. We analyse the content of websites on the presumption that this reflects what the author wants to say about him / herself. The study offers a new technique for content analysts and marketing communicators to quantify various aspects of marketing communications and goes a little further towards the evaluation and mapping of websites using correspondence analysis.

Volume

38

Issue

4

First Page

21

Last Page

32

NSUWorks Citation

Opoku, Robert Ankomah; Pitt, L. F.; and Abratt, Russell, "Positioning in Cyberspace: Evaluating Bestselling Authors' Online Communicated Brand Personalities Using Computer-aided Content Analysis" (2007). HCBE Faculty Articles. 893.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facarticles/893