Comparar métodos

	Autoetnografía Digital	Autoetnografía	Netnografía
Campo	Cualitativa	Cualitativa	Cualitativa
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	2000s–2010s	Late 20th century (term coined 1979; method consolidated 1990s–2000s)	1997 (coined); 2010 (first comprehensive methodology book)
Autor original	Annette Markham; expanded through netnography work by Robert Kozinets	Carolyn Ellis, Arthur Bochner, Norman Denzin (prominent theorists); David Hayano coined the term in 1979	Robert V. Kozinets
Tipo	Qualitative self-reflexive design	Qualitative research method	Qualitative research method
Fuente seminal	Markham, A. N. (2013). Undermining 'data': A critical examination of a core term in scientific inquiry. First Monday, 18(10).	Ellis, C. (2004). The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759100947	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875907
Alias	online autoethnography, virtual autoethnography, digital self-ethnography, networked autoethnography	auto-ethnography, AE, personal narrative research, self-ethnography	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, cyber-ethnography, digital ethnography
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Resumen	Digital autoethnography is a qualitative research design in which the researcher systematically examines their own lived experience within digital environments — social media platforms, online communities, gaming worlds, digital workplaces, or other networked spaces — to illuminate broader cultural and social phenomena. Combining autoethnography's first-person reflexivity with the study of digital life, it treats personal digital traces, interactions, and self-representations as primary data.	Autoethnography is a qualitative research method in which the researcher uses systematic self-reflection and personal narrative to examine their own experiences within a cultural, social, or organizational context. By treating the self as both subject and instrument, autoethnography connects individual lived experience to broader cultural patterns, making personal stories analytically and socially significant. It bridges autobiography and ethnography, producing accounts that are simultaneously evocative and scholarly.	Netnography is a qualitative research method that adapts the principles of cultural ethnography to the study of online communities and social media environments. Coined by Robert Kozinets in 1997 and systematised in his 2010 handbook, netnography treats digital spaces — forums, social networks, blogs, review sites — as naturally occurring field sites where communities gather, share meanings, and construct identities. The method combines unobtrusive observation of digital traces with active participation and, where appropriate, direct member interaction.