Methoden vergleichen

	Interpretive Digital Ethnography	Digitale Ethnographie
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	Late 1990s–2000s	Late 1990s – 2000s
Urheber	Christine Hine; Sarah Pink and colleagues	Christine Hine (virtual ethnography); Robert V. Kozinets (netnography)
Typ	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
Wegweisende Quelle	Hine, C. (2000). Virtual Ethnography. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761958963	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875228
Aliasnamen	virtual ethnography (interpretivist), online ethnography, internet ethnography, digital fieldwork	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, internet ethnography, netnography
Verwandt	4	6
Zusammenfassung	Interpretive digital ethnography is a qualitative research design that studies human cultures, communities, and practices as they emerge and unfold in digital spaces. Drawing on the interpretivist tradition, it treats online environments as genuine cultural sites and uses sustained, participant-oriented fieldwork to produce rich, context-sensitive accounts of how people create meaning through digital interaction.	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.