Methoden vergleichen

	Digitale Dokumentenanalyse	Diskursanalyse
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitative Forschung
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2000s onward (grounded in earlier document analysis traditions)	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Urheber	Adapted from traditional document analysis; digital variant developed by qualitative researchers across disciplines (e.g., Bowen 2009; Prior 2003)	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Typ	Qualitative data analysis method	Method
Wegweisende Quelle	Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27–40.	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Aliasnamen	online document analysis, digital text analysis, e-document analysis, digital archival analysis	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Verwandt	6	2
Zusammenfassung	Digital document analysis is a qualitative method for systematically locating, appraising, and interpreting documents that exist in digital or online form — including websites, emails, institutional reports, policy files, social media content, and digital archives. It applies the established logic of document analysis to born-digital and digitised sources, enabling researchers to examine meaning, discourse, and institutional practice embedded in contemporary digital texts without recruiting participants.	Discourse analysis is a qualitative research methodology that examines how language, communication, and power shape meaning, identity, and social reality. Developed across linguistics, sociology, and psychology (particularly by Norman Fairclough and Jonathan Potter), discourse analysis goes beyond content to analyze language use as a social practice that constitutes and reflects power relations, ideologies, and social structures.