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Digital Document Analysis

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.

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Digital Document Analysis in Qualitative Research

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative

Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27–40. · DOI 10.3316/QRJ0902027
Prior, L. (2003). Using Documents in Social Research. Sage. · ISBN 978-0761965107

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