Compară metode

	Etnografia Digitală Participativă	Cercetarea Acțiune Participativă (CAP)
Domeniu	Calitativ	Calitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	2000s–2010s	1940s (Lewin); PAR as distinct tradition formalised ~1970s–1980s
Autorul original	Sarah Pink and colleagues; building on Christine Hine's virtual ethnography and Kemmis & McTaggart's participatory action research traditions	Kurt Lewin (action research foundations, 1940s); systematised for participatory contexts by Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, and William Foote Whyte
Tip	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
Sursa seminală	Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lewis, T., & Tacchi, J. (2016). Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice. Sage. ISBN: 978-1446200957	Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer.
Denumiri alternative	PDE, collaborative digital ethnography, participatory online ethnography, participatory virtual ethnography	PAR, community-based participatory research, collaborative action research, participatory inquiry
Înrudite	3	6
Rezumat	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.	Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a qualitative, community-centred methodology in which researchers and community members collaborate as co-investigators to identify a shared problem, take deliberate action, observe outcomes, and reflect critically on results — cycling iteratively until meaningful change is achieved. Unlike conventional research that studies people from the outside, PAR treats participants as active agents who co-own the research process, the knowledge produced, and the practical interventions that follow.