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Digital Institutional Ethnography

Digital Institutional Ethnography (Digital IE) applies Dorothy E. Smith's institutional ethnography framework to digital and online settings. It investigates how institutional ruling relations — the texts, policies, and coordination mechanisms that organize people's everyday lives — operate through digital infrastructures such as platforms, software systems, online documents, and algorithmic processes. The goal is to make visible how digital tools and texts coordinate and subordinate experience to institutional interests.

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Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. · ISBN 978-0759105010
Grahame, P. R., & Grahame, M. (2020). Institutional Ethnography and the Digital Turn: Researching Online Coordination of Work. Qualitative Sociology Review, 16(1), 6–24. · URL

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