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Digital Qualitative Content Analysis

Digital Qualitative Content Analysis (DQCA) is a systematic method for interpreting meaning from digital texts — social media posts, forum threads, blogs, emails, and other online content — through a structured, category-driven coding process. It extends the established tradition of qualitative content analysis (Mayring; Schreier) to the scale, multimodality, and contextual specificity of digital environments, prioritising interpretive depth over frequency counting.

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Schreier, M. (2012). Qualitative Content Analysis in Practice. Sage. · ISBN 978-0857029485
Stoltenberg, I., & Mruck, K. (2023). Qualitative content analysis in the digital age: Challenges and opportunities. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 24(1). · URL

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