Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Types of
Documents
- Here we present some characteristics and examples of the different types of documents.
- Popular Culture
Documents
- Are designed to entertain, inform, and
perhaps persuade the public.
- Examples
- Television, film, radio, newspapers, literary works,
photography, cartoons, and the Internet are
sources of “public” data that help to track the
change and trends.
- Personal Documents
- Provide subjective
conclusions
- Examples
- Diaries, letters, home videos, children’s growth
records, scrapbooks and photo albums,
calendars, autobiographies, travel logs, and
personal blogs.
- Refer to any first-person narrative
that describes an individual’s actions,
experiences, and beliefs
- Give us a snapshot (personal
perspective) into what the author
thinks is important.
- Public Records
- Reveal
- These might be otherwise unknown through
direct observation
- Aspirations
- Arrangements
- Tensions
- Relationships
- Decisions
- The official, ongoing
records of a society’s
activities.
- Examples
- Ethnographer field notes, diary entries,
reports to various agencies, books,
newspaper articles, works of fiction about
the culture, and photographs.
- Visual Documents
- Available online or in the
physical setting that one is
studying.
- Capture activities and events
as they happen, including
communication patterns
- Facial expressions,
gestures, and emotions
- Examples
- Film, video, photography, and web-based
media. Public records, personal documents,
and popular cultural materials can all be in
visual formats.