Vertaile menetelmiä

	Tulkinnallinen netnografia	Netnografia
Tieteenala	Laadulliset menetelmät	Laadulliset menetelmät
Menetelmäperhe	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Syntyvuosi	1997–2002	1997 (coined); 2010 (first comprehensive methodology book)
Kehittäjä	Robert V. Kozinets	Robert V. Kozinets
Tyyppi	Qualitative online research design	Qualitative research method
Alkuperäislähde	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875228	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875907
Rinnakkaisnimet	interpretivist netnography, constructivist netnography, online ethnography (interpretivist), virtual ethnography (interpretive)	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, cyber-ethnography, digital ethnography
Liittyvät	4	6
Tiivistelmä	Interpretive netnography applies Kozinets' netnographic method within an explicitly interpretivist epistemological framework. The researcher immerses in online communities — social media, forums, blogs, or brand communities — to understand how members co-construct meaning, identity, and culture through digital interaction. Unlike positivist content analysis, interpretive netnography foregrounds the researcher's situated reading of online texts and privileges thick, contextualised meaning-making over frequency counts or variable measurement.	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.