방법 비교

	디지털 생애사 연구	디지털 민족지학
분야	질적 방법	질적 방법
계열	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
기원 연도	2000s (digital turn in life history; rooted in life history tradition since ~1920s)	Late 1990s – 2000s
창시자	Building on Goodson, Roberts, and broader biographical research traditions; digital extension from 2000s onward	Christine Hine (virtual ethnography); Robert V. Kozinets (netnography)
유형	Qualitative biographical research design	Qualitative research method
원전	Goodson, I., & Gill, S. (2017). The Narrative Turn in Social Research. In I. Goodson & M. Andrews (Eds.), Considering Counter-Narratives (pp. 1–24). John Benjamins.	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875228
별칭	digital life story research, DLHR, online life history method, digital biographical method	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, internet ethnography, netnography
관련	5	6
요약	Digital Life History Research is a qualitative biographical method that investigates how individuals construct, narrate, and preserve their life stories using digital tools and environments. It extends the classical life history tradition into online spaces — gathering data through video interviews, asynchronous email narratives, digital diaries, social media timelines, and multimedia life documents — to understand personal and social experience across time.	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.