Methoden vergleichen

	Vergleichende Netnographie	Netnografie – Online-ethnografische Forschung
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	Late 1990s–2000s (netnography ~1997; comparative extension ~2000s–2010s)	1997 (coined); 2010 (first comprehensive methodology book)
Urheber	Robert V. Kozinets (netnography); comparative extension through multi-site online fieldwork practice	Robert V. Kozinets
Typ	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative research method
Wegweisende Quelle	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875532	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875907
Aliasnamen	cross-community netnography, multi-site netnography, comparative online ethnography, comparative virtual ethnography	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, cyber-ethnography, digital ethnography
Verwandt	5	6
Zusammenfassung	Comparative netnography applies netnographic methods systematically across two or more online communities, platforms, or cultural contexts to reveal both shared and divergent patterns in online social life. Grounded in Kozinets's netnographic tradition, it extends single-site online ethnography into a comparative logic: the researcher immerses in multiple digital field sites, gathers culturally embedded data, and analyses across sites to generate theoretically richer, transferable insights.	Netnography is a qualitative research method that adapts the principles of cultural ethnography to the study of online communities and social media environments. Coined by Robert Kozinets in 1997 and systematised in his 2010 handbook, netnography treats digital spaces — forums, social networks, blogs, review sites — as naturally occurring field sites where communities gather, share meanings, and construct identities. The method combines unobtrusive observation of digital traces with active participation and, where appropriate, direct member interaction.