Visual Elicitation Netnography — Image-Based Online Ethnographic Research

Visual elicitation netnography is a qualitative online research design that adapts netnographic fieldwork to center visual data — images, videos, memes, and multimedia posts — both as primary data and as elicitation stimuli for deeper participant meaning-making. It extends Kozinets's netnography into the visually saturated landscapes of contemporary social media, treating user-generated imagery as a culturally rich text for ethnographic interpretation.