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	Etnografia Istituzionale Digitale	Etnografia Istituzionale
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	IE: 1980s–1990s; digital adaptation: 2000s–2010s	1970s–1987 (developed through the 1970s–80s; consolidated in Smith 1987, 2005)
Ideatore	Dorothy E. Smith (IE foundations); extended by IE scholars to digital contexts	Dorothy E. Smith
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
Alias	Digital IE, online institutional ethnography, virtual institutional ethnography, digital Smith IE	IE, sociology for people, institutional ethnographic inquiry, Smith's institutional ethnography
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	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.	Institutional Ethnography (IE) is a qualitative research method developed by Canadian sociologist Dorothy E. Smith that investigates how people's everyday lives are shaped and coordinated by institutional texts, rules, and relations of power. Starting from the lived experience of individuals in a particular standpoint, IE traces the social organization that governs their work and troubles — revealing how macro-level institutions operate through the micro-level activities of real people.