Methoden vergleichen

	Querschnittliche quantitative Inhaltsanalyse	Longitudinale quantitative Inhaltsanalyse
Fachgebiet	Forschungsdesign	Forschungsdesign
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	Mid-20th century (formalized 1952–2000s)	1950s onward; longitudinal application widely adopted in media research by the 1970s–1980s
Urheber	Berelson, B.; Krippendorff, K.; Neuendorf, K. A.	Developed within communication and media studies; codified by Berelson (1952) and extended by Riffe, Lacy, Fico
Typ	Quantitative observational research design	Quantitative observational research design
Wegweisende Quelle	Neuendorf, K. A. (2002). The Content Analysis Guidebook. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761919773	Riffe, D., Lacy, S., Watson, B., & Fico, F. (2019). Analyzing Media Messages: Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 9781138490536
Aliasnamen	CS-QCA, cross-sectional content analysis, single-timepoint content analysis, quantitative media content analysis	longitudinal content analysis, repeated-measure content analysis, time-series content analysis, longitudinal QCA
Verwandt	4	5
Zusammenfassung	Cross-sectional quantitative content analysis is an observational research design in which a systematically drawn sample of communicative content — news articles, social media posts, advertisements, or other symbolic material — is collected at a single point in time and coded using pre-defined numerical categories to describe or test hypotheses about patterns, frequencies, or associations within that content.	Longitudinal quantitative content analysis systematically codes and counts features of texts, images, or media messages gathered at two or more points in time, enabling researchers to track how content changes, how themes rise or fall in prevalence, and how media or institutional messaging responds to external events. The design merges the structured measurement logic of quantitative content analysis with the temporal tracking power of longitudinal observation.