השוואת שיטות

	אתנוגרפיה מוסדית דיגיטלית	ניתוח מסמכים
תחום	איכותני	מחקר איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	IE: 1980s–1990s; digital adaptation: 2000s–2010s	1920
הוגה השיטה	Dorothy E. Smith (IE foundations); extended by IE scholars to digital contexts	Max Weber and Karl Mannheim
סוג	Qualitative research design	Method
מקור מכונן	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010	Scott, J. (1990). A Matter of Record: Documentary Sources in Social Research. Polity Press. ISBN: 978-0745608419
כינויים	Digital IE, online institutional ethnography, virtual institutional ethnography, digital Smith IE	documentary analysis, textual analysis, content analysis of documents, archival research
קשורות	6	4
תקציר	Digital Institutional Ethnography (Digital IE) applies Dorothy E. Smith's institutional ethnography framework to digital and online settings. It investigates how institutional ruling relations — the texts, policies, and coordination mechanisms that organize people's everyday lives — operate through digital infrastructures such as platforms, software systems, online documents, and algorithmic processes. The goal is to make visible how digital tools and texts coordinate and subordinate experience to institutional interests.	Document analysis is a systematic qualitative research method for examining written, visual, or audiovisual sources—such as policy documents, historical records, organizational records, media reports, emails, social media posts, photographs, or videos—to extract meaning, identify patterns, and understand social phenomena. Developed by Weber and Mannheim in early 20th-century sociology, the method bridges historical research, content analysis, and textual interpretation. Document analysis is used across disciplines to understand organizational change, policy evolution, media representation, historical events, and cultural meaning. Documents provide evidence of what organizations, institutions, or societies value, decide, and communicate, often revealing contradictions between policy and practice.