Document study as a research method

I refer to Bryman and Bell (2011) and prepare the following agenda for reviewing the topic of Document Study as a research method in class:

1. Examining personal documents
2. Examining public documents
3. Examining organizational documents
4. Examining mass media outputs, e.g. newspapers, magazines, and TV programmes.
5. Examining visual documents, e.g. graphic images and video clips
6. Examining virtual documents
7. Analysis techniques:
• Qualitative content analysis
• Semiotics
• Hermeneutics
• Historical analysis

Pls refer to Chapter 21 of Bryman and Bell (2011) for a detailed account of the topics noted above.



Reference
Bryman, A. and Bell, E. (2011) Business Research Methods, Oxford University Press  [Chapter 21: Documents as sources of data]