Standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse in der Kommunikationswissenschaft – Standardized Content Analysis in

This Open Access handbook identifies and systematises the status quo of standardised, content-analytical research in communication studies and makes it accessible to researchers and students. It covers topics and research areas of news journalism, fictional content and communication of professional and lay communicators. The focus is on the central questions and research designs with special attention to the constructs/variables used. In the associated database "Database of Variables for Content Analysis - DOCA", variable descriptions are compiled and made searchable. The manual provides the contextual framework for this. Together they form the basis for the standardisation and thus comparability of content analysis studies.