Comparative Quantitative Content Analysis
Comparative quantitative content analysis is a systematic, replicable method for counting and categorizing features of communication content — such as news coverage, social media posts, or policy documents — across two or more groups, time periods, outlets, or countries. By applying a standardized codebook to each comparison context, it reveals patterns of similarity and difference in how topics, frames, actors, or sentiments are represented, and allows statistical testing of those differences.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Berelson, B. (1952). Content Analysis in Communication Research. Free Press. · URL
- Neuendorf, K. A. (2002). The Content Analysis Guidebook. Sage. · ISBN 978-0761919773
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.