New content analysis methods reveal hidden meanings and audience interpretations in texts.
The article introduces new ways to analyze content in texts. Instead of just counting words, researchers can now count different interpretations of the text. This helps understand how different people might understand the same text. The new methods are reception based content analysis and interpretive content analysis. These methods go beyond just looking at the obvious meaning of words in a text. They are different from traditional content analysis, which focuses on counting words. The new methods are useful in different situations for understanding texts better.