Doing Document Analysis

A Practice-Oriented Method
Kristin Asdal
Hilde Reinertsen
Doing Document Analysis
December 2021 | 256 pages | Sage UK
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Uniting methods from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, this hands-on guide develops a novel approach to doing document analysis. The authors present a framework for studying documents that enables you to conduct a rich and systematic analysis of documents in all their diversity.

Focussing on document analysis both in practice and as practice, the book provides you with an innovative and versatile toolkit for analysing print and digital documents. It also:

  • Highlights the impacts of digitalisation on documents themselves and the methods used to study them
  • Has a strong focus on research ethics and critical engagement with digital sources
  • Offers practical guidance on preparing and doing a document analysis research project.

The book offers insightful perspectives both on the indispensable role of documents in our society and practical advice on how you can best analyse documents and their significance. 

Contents

INTRODUCTION: PRACTICE-ORIENTED DOCUMENT ANALYSIS

INTRODUCTION: PRACTICE-ORIENTED DOCUMENT ANALYSIS

PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK

  • Chapter 1: Document sites
  • Chapter 2: Document tools
  • Chapter 3: Document work
  • Chapter 4: Document texts
  • Chapter 5: Document issues
  • Chapter 6: Document movements
  • Chapter 7: Practice-oriented document analysis: The six concepts combined

Part II: PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DOING RESEARCH WITH DOCUMENTS

  • Chapter 8: Practical techniques
  • Chapter 9: Handling digital documents
  • Chapter 10: Ensuring good and ethical practice

Part III: FOUNDATIONAL DISCUSSIONS

  • Chapter 11: The turn to practice in analysing documents

Description

Uniting methods from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, this hands-on guide develops a novel approach to doing document analysis. The authors present a framework for studying documents that enables you to conduct a rich and systematic analysis of documents in all their diversity.

Focussing on document analysis both in practice and as practice, the book provides you with an innovative and versatile toolkit for analysing print and digital documents. It also:

  • Highlights the impacts of digitalisation on documents themselves and the methods used to study them
  • Has a strong focus on research ethics and critical engagement with digital sources
  • Offers practical guidance on preparing and doing a document analysis research project.

The book offers insightful perspectives both on the indispensable role of documents in our society and practical advice on how you can best analyse documents and their significance. 

Contents

INTRODUCTION: PRACTICE-ORIENTED DOCUMENT ANALYSIS

INTRODUCTION: PRACTICE-ORIENTED DOCUMENT ANALYSIS

PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK

  • Chapter 1: Document sites
  • Chapter 2: Document tools
  • Chapter 3: Document work
  • Chapter 4: Document texts
  • Chapter 5: Document issues
  • Chapter 6: Document movements
  • Chapter 7: Practice-oriented document analysis: The six concepts combined

Part II: PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DOING RESEARCH WITH DOCUMENTS

  • Chapter 8: Practical techniques
  • Chapter 9: Handling digital documents
  • Chapter 10: Ensuring good and ethical practice

Part III: FOUNDATIONAL DISCUSSIONS

  • Chapter 11: The turn to practice in analysing documents
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Doing Document Analysis

A Practice-Oriented Method

Kristin Asdal , Hilde Reinertsen
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December 2021 | 256 pages | Sage UK

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Uniting methods from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, this hands-on guide develops a novel approach to doing document analysis. The authors present a framework for studying documents that enables you to conduct a rich and systematic analysis of documents in all their diversity.

Focussing on document analysis both in practice and as practice, the book provides you with an innovative and versatile toolkit for analysing print and digital documents. It also:

  • Highlights the impacts of digitalisation on documents themselves and the methods used to study them
  • Has a strong focus on research ethics and critical engagement with digital sources
  • Offers practical guidance on preparing and doing a document analysis research project.

The book offers insightful perspectives both on the indispensable role of documents in our society and practical advice on how you can best analyse documents and their significance. 


Table Of Contents:

  • INTRODUCTION: PRACTICE-ORIENTED DOCUMENT ANALYSIS
  • PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
  • Chapter 1: Document sites
  • Chapter 2: Document tools
  • Chapter 3: Document work
  • Chapter 4: Document texts
  • Chapter 5: Document issues
  • Chapter 6: Document movements
  • Chapter 7: Practice-oriented document analysis: The six concepts combined
  • Part II: PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DOING RESEARCH WITH DOCUMENTS
  • Chapter 8: Practical techniques
  • Chapter 9: Handling digital documents
  • Chapter 10: Ensuring good and ethical practice
  • Part III: FOUNDATIONAL DISCUSSIONS
  • Chapter 11: The turn to practice in analysing documents

Recent Product Reviews:

Social science has increasingly turned to document practices to understand the social processes. But this book actually explains how to do it! Systematic and brimming with insights, this will be an invaluable guide for researchers in fields from history to anthropology and science and technology.
Matthew Hull, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Documents weave through practices. They help to make the world. But how to analyse them? In this beautiful but thoroughly down-to-earth book Asdal and Reinertsen have created an indispensable guide to the ins and outs of analysing documents in practice. Highly recommended.
John Law, Emeritus Professor, School of Social Sciences & Global Studies, Open University
This is a fascinating, clearly written and much needed guide to the often overlooked world of documents. Ideal for students, researchers and experienced academics, this book will be an invaluable resource to anyone interested in researching the role documents play in the societies in which we live.
Hannah Knox, Department of Anthropology, University College London
Asdal and Reinertsen provide a cutting-edge but also hands-on introduction to analysing documents that is accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. I have never recommended as many students to get a book as soon as it is out.
Maximilian Fochler, Associate Professor at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna

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