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	Framing Analysis	Content Analysis
Field	Communication	Qualitative
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1993	Systematised through Krippendorff's methodology work; 4th edition 2018
Originator	Robert M. Entman (synthesis); roots in Goffman, Tuchman, Gitlin	Klaus Krippendorff (systematic formulation); roots in early 20th-century communications research
Type	Interpretive-quantitative analysis of how messages select and emphasize aspects of reality	Qualitative / mixed-method research technique
Seminal source	Entman, R. M. (1993). Framing: Toward clarification of a fractured paradigm. Journal of Communication, 43(4), 51–58.	Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506395661
Aliases	Frame analysis, Media framing analysis method, Frame mapping, Çerçeveleme Analizi	İçerik Analizi, systematic content coding, quantitative content analysis
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Summary	Framing analysis is a communication research method for studying how messages select certain aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient — promoting a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and treatment recommendation. Building on Robert Entman's influential 1993 synthesis, it moves beyond counting what is present to reconstructing the organizing ideas, or frames, that give media coverage its meaning and persuasive shape.	Content analysis is a systematic research technique for reducing text, visual, or media material into coded categories so that patterns can be counted, compared, and interpreted. Formalised by Klaus Krippendorff in his widely cited methodology textbook (latest edition 2018), the method sits at the boundary of qualitative and quantitative inquiry: it imposes structured, replicable coding on inherently meaning-laden material.