Methoden vergleichen

	Digitale Ethnographie	Narrative Analysis
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	Late 1990s – 2000s	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
Urheber	Christine Hine (virtual ethnography); Robert V. Kozinets (netnography)	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
Typ	Qualitative research method	Qualitative interpretive method
Wegweisende Quelle	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875228	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
Aliasnamen	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, internet ethnography, netnography	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
Verwandt	6	6
Zusammenfassung	Digital ethnography is a qualitative research method that adapts traditional ethnographic fieldwork to online and digitally mediated settings. Drawing on sustained participant observation, document collection, and sometimes interviews, the researcher immerses themselves in one or more digital communities — social media platforms, forums, gaming spaces, or messaging groups — to understand how culture, identity, and social practice are constructed through digital interaction. The approach recognises that online spaces are not merely reflections of offline life but distinctive sites of cultural production in their own right.	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.