Comparer des méthodes

	Netnographie Participative	Ethnographie numérique
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1997 (netnography); participatory variant codified c. 2010–2020	Late 1990s – 2000s
Auteur d'origine	Robert V. Kozinets (netnography foundation); participatory stance elaborated in Kozinets 2010/2020	Christine Hine (virtual ethnography); Robert V. Kozinets (netnography)
Type	Qualitative online ethnographic approach	Qualitative research method
Source fondatrice	Kozinets, R. V. (2020). Netnography: The Essential Guide to Qualitative Social Media Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1526458896	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875228
Alias	participatory online ethnography, active netnography, engaged netnography, participant-observer netnography	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, internet ethnography, netnography
Apparentées	4	6
Résumé	Participatory Netnography is a qualitative research approach in which the researcher becomes an active, contributing member of an online community in order to study it from within. Building on Kozinets' netnography framework, it extends the purely observational stance to active participation — the researcher posts, replies, and engages authentically — generating richer, context-embedded data about online social life, consumer culture, or community practices than passive observation alone can provide.	Digital ethnography is a qualitative research method that adapts traditional ethnographic fieldwork to online and digitally mediated settings. Drawing on sustained participant observation, document collection, and sometimes interviews, the researcher immerses themselves in one or more digital communities — social media platforms, forums, gaming spaces, or messaging groups — to understand how culture, identity, and social practice are constructed through digital interaction. The approach recognises that online spaces are not merely reflections of offline life but distinctive sites of cultural production in their own right.