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This study investigates how historians use digital archival photographs to construct scholarly evidence and knowledge.

Ways of knowing: historians and the social construction of evidence

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Qualitative study explores historians' interactions with digital photos, revealing new evidence practices and implications for knowledge.

This study investigates how historians use digital archival photographs to construct scholarly evidence and knowledge.
Conducted photo-elicitation interviews with fifteen historians
Applied discourse-analytic approach rooted in social constructionism
Used reflexive thematic analysis for textual and visual material analysis
Historians employ 'epistemic devices' as communicative mechanisms in evidence construction
Epistemic devices function in various informational contexts and influence ways of knowing
Research contributes an empirical model of information use as a discursive social construction

Alexandra Chassanoff (2026) studied this question.

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Qualitative study explores historians' interactions with digital photos, revealing new evidence practices and implications for knowledge.

This study investigates how historians use digital archival photographs to construct scholarly evidence and knowledge.
Conducted photo-elicitation interviews with fifteen historians
Applied discourse-analytic approach rooted in social constructionism
Used reflexive thematic analysis for textual and visual material analysis
Historians employ 'epistemic devices' as communicative mechanisms in evidence construction
Epistemic devices function in various informational contexts and influence ways of knowing
Research contributes an empirical model of information use as a discursive social construction

Alexandra Chassanoff (2026) studied this question.

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