השוואת שיטות

	אתנוגרפיה מוסדית דיגיטלית	אתנוגרפיה דיגיטלית השתתפותית
תחום	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	IE: 1980s–1990s; digital adaptation: 2000s–2010s	2000s–2010s
הוגה השיטה	Dorothy E. Smith (IE foundations); extended by IE scholars to digital contexts	Sarah Pink and colleagues; building on Christine Hine's virtual ethnography and Kemmis & McTaggart's participatory action research traditions
סוג	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
מקור מכונן	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010	Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lewis, T., & Tacchi, J. (2016). Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice. Sage. ISBN: 978-1446200957
כינויים	Digital IE, online institutional ethnography, virtual institutional ethnography, digital Smith IE	PDE, collaborative digital ethnography, participatory online ethnography, participatory virtual ethnography
קשורות	6	3
תקציר	Digital Institutional Ethnography (Digital IE) applies Dorothy E. Smith's institutional ethnography framework to digital and online settings. It investigates how institutional ruling relations — the texts, policies, and coordination mechanisms that organize people's everyday lives — operate through digital infrastructures such as platforms, software systems, online documents, and algorithmic processes. The goal is to make visible how digital tools and texts coordinate and subordinate experience to institutional interests.	Participatory Digital Ethnography (PDE) is a qualitative research design that combines the immersive observation of digital ethnography with the collaborative, co-inquiry stance of participatory action research. Researchers work alongside community members within digital environments — social media platforms, online forums, gaming worlds, or hybrid digital-physical spaces — co-producing knowledge rather than studying participants from a detached observer position.