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	Media Richness Analysis	Intercoder Reliability
Field	Communication	Communication
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1986	1960
Originator	Richard L. Daft & Robert H. Lengel	Foundational coefficients by Cohen (1960) and Krippendorff (1970)
Type	Framework and method for assessing channel richness vs. task equivocality	Procedure and coefficients for certifying coding agreement
Seminal source	Daft, R. L., & Lengel, R. H. (1986). Organizational information requirements, media richness and structural design. Management Science, 32(5), 554–571.	Hayes, A. F., & Krippendorff, K. (2007). Answering the call for a standard reliability measure for coding data. Communication Methods and Measures, 1(1), 77–89.
Aliases	Media richness theory analysis, Information richness analysis, Channel richness assessment, Ortam Zenginliği Analizi	Inter-rater reliability, Coder agreement assessment, Reliability of coding, Kodlayıcılar Arası Güvenirlik
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Summary	Media richness analysis applies Daft and Lengel's media richness theory to evaluate communication channels by their capacity to carry rich information and to assess how well a channel fits the equivocality of the task at hand. Rooted in organizational communication, it provides criteria — feedback immediacy, multiplicity of cues, language variety, and personal focus — for ranking channels from lean (a memo) to rich (face-to-face) and for diagnosing whether managers and teams are matching channel to message appropriately.	Intercoder reliability is the degree to which independent coders, applying the same coding scheme to the same content, arrive at the same coding decisions. In content analysis it is the central guarantee that findings reflect the messages rather than the idiosyncrasies of who happened to code them, and reporting a chance-corrected reliability coefficient is a near-universal requirement for publication in communication research.