SCM Studies in Communication and Media

According to the public interest model of normative media theory, media reporting is expected to regularly place child sexual abuse (CSA) on the agenda as a relevant societal problem and cover it in a high-quality manner that contributes to social...

Although the quantitative content analysis is one of the most important methods in empirical social research, the coding process receives little attention. This is particularly concerning in light of current developments, such as the rise of the use...

Content analysis is one of the core methods of communication science. However, it is currently confronted with several challenges, such as the influx of procedures, data, and measurements emerging from computational methods. To understand how...

Automated content analyses have become a popular tool in communication sci- ence. While standard procedures for manual content analysis were established decades ago, it remains an open question whether these standards are sufficient for the use of...

Questions of validity and research ethics are closely linked, with content-analytic research being no exception. Nevertheless, in the past, quantitative content analysis has often been excluded from ethical discussions among communication scholars....

In quantitative content analysis, conventional wisdom holds that reliability, op- erationalized as agreement, is a necessary precondition for validity. Underlying this view is the assumption that there is a definite, unique way to correctly classify...