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	Analisi Critica del Contenuto	Analisi del Contenuto Interpretativa
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1980s–2000s (consolidated in practice by the 1990s–2000s)	1983 (Mayring's German original); 2000 (English publication)
Ideatore	Building on Krippendorff (1980) and Altheide (1996); synthesised through critical theory traditions (Frankfurt School, feminist and race critical scholars)	Philipp Mayring (systematic qualitative variant); Klaus Krippendorff (foundational framework)
Tipo	Qualitative analytical approach	Qualitative text analysis approach
Fonte seminale	Altheide, D. L. (1996). Qualitative Media Analysis. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803970892	Mayring, P. (2000). Qualitative content analysis. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(2), Art. 20.
Alias	CCA, critical textual analysis, ideological content analysis, critical qualitative content analysis	ICA, interpretive CA, qualitative content analysis, meaning-oriented content analysis
Correlati	5	6
Sintesi	Critical content analysis is a qualitative approach that examines texts, media, and documents not merely for manifest meaning but for how they construct, reinforce, or contest relations of power, ideology, race, gender, and class. Grounded in critical theory traditions, it asks whose interests a text serves, what voices are silenced, and how language and representation naturalise dominant worldviews. It combines systematic analytic rigour with an explicitly emancipatory or transformative research stance.	Interpretive content analysis is a systematic qualitative approach for analyzing the latent meanings and interpretive frameworks embedded in textual, visual, or documentary data. Unlike frequency-based content analysis, it foregrounds the researcher's interpretive engagement with texts to uncover how meaning is constructed, contested, or reproduced. Philipp Mayring's qualitative content analysis and broader interpretive traditions provide the methodological backbone for this approach.