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Content Analysis

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.

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Content Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative
  • Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (4th ed.). Sage. · ISBN 978-1506395661
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