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Comparative Digital Ethnography

Comparative Digital Ethnography (CDE) is a qualitative design that applies ethnographic methods — sustained participant observation, interview, and artefact analysis — across two or more digital settings simultaneously. By systematically comparing practices, meanings, and interactions in different online environments (e.g., distinct platforms, communities, or national contexts), CDE surfaces both site-specific patterns and cross-cutting cultural logics that a single-site study would miss.

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Comparative Digital Ethnography
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative
  • Hine, C. (2000). Virtual Ethnography. Sage. · ISBN 978-0761958963
  • Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 95–117. · DOI 10.1146/annurev.an.24.100195.000523
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