השוואת שיטות

	דיגיטל-אוטו-אנתרופולוגיה	אוטואתנוגרפיה	אתנוגרפיה דיגיטלית
תחום	איכותני	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2000s–2010s	Late 20th century (term coined 1979; method consolidated 1990s–2000s)	Late 1990s – 2000s
הוגה השיטה	Annette Markham; expanded through netnography work by Robert Kozinets	Carolyn Ellis, Arthur Bochner, Norman Denzin (prominent theorists); David Hayano coined the term in 1979	Christine Hine (virtual ethnography); Robert V. Kozinets (netnography)
סוג	Qualitative self-reflexive design	Qualitative research method	Qualitative research method
מקור מכונן	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: 978-1847875228
כינויים	online autoethnography, virtual autoethnography, digital self-ethnography, networked autoethnography	auto-ethnography, AE, personal narrative research, self-ethnography	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, internet ethnography, netnography
קשורות	5	6	6
תקציר	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.	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.