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	Fenomenologia Digitale	Etnografia Digitale
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2000s–2010s	Late 1990s – 2000s
Ideatore	Emerging from classical phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger) applied to digital contexts; synthesised by scholars such as Sarah Pink and Mark D. Vagle	Christine Hine (virtual ethnography); Robert V. Kozinets (netnography)
Tipo	Qualitative research approach	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lewis, T., & Tacchi, J. (2016). Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice. Sage. ISBN: 978-1446200476	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875228
Alias	online phenomenology, virtual phenomenology, phenomenology of digital experience, digitally-mediated phenomenology	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, internet ethnography, netnography
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Digital Phenomenology is a qualitative research approach that applies phenomenological inquiry to lived experiences mediated by or situated within digital environments — including social media platforms, virtual communities, online spaces, and interactions with digital technologies. It asks how people experience, make meaning of, and embody their encounters with digital tools and online worlds, using the interpretive and descriptive rigour of classical phenomenology in settings where much or all of the experience unfolds online.	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.