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	تحلیل استعاره دیجیتال	تحلیل محتوای دیجیتال
حوزه	کیفی	کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	2000s–2010s (digital application)	1950s (classical); digital adaptation 2000s–2010s
پدیدآور	Rooted in Lakoff & Johnson (1980); extended to digital contexts by corpus and computational linguists from the 2000s onward	Building on Berelson (1952) and Krippendorff (1980); adapted for digital contexts by Herring (2010) and Neuendorf (2002+)
نوع	Qualitative–interpretive analysis	Qualitative/quantitative hybrid research approach
منبع بنیادین	Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226468013	Neuendorf, K. A. (2017). The Content Analysis Guidebook (2nd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1412979474
نام‌های دیگر	online metaphor analysis, digital metaphor research, metaphor analysis of digital texts, DMA	DCA, online content analysis, web content analysis, digital media content analysis
مرتبط	5	4
خلاصه	Digital Metaphor Analysis (DMA) is a qualitative research approach that identifies, maps, and interprets conceptual metaphors embedded in digital texts — social media posts, online forums, blogs, comment sections, and other internet-mediated communication. Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980), it examines how users frame abstract ideas (identity, politics, health, crisis) through systematic metaphorical mappings, revealing shared conceptual structures and ideological orientations within online discourse communities.	Digital Content Analysis is a systematic research method for describing, categorising, and interpreting the content of digital materials — social media posts, websites, online forums, blogs, emails, and video transcripts. It applies the rigorous coding logic of classical content analysis to digitally native or digitally collected text, enabling researchers to move from raw online data to structured, interpretable findings about communication, meaning, and social phenomena.