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.