Jämför metoder

	Interpretiv etnografi	Discourse Analysis	Netnografi
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativ forskning	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	Late 1990s–2000s	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)	1997 (coined); 2010 (first comprehensive methodology book)
Upphovsperson	Christine Hine; Sarah Pink and colleagues	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell	Robert V. Kozinets
Typ	Qualitative research design	Method	Qualitative research method
Ursprungskälla	Hine, C. (2000). Virtual Ethnography. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761958963	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875907
Alias	virtual ethnography (interpretivist), online ethnography, internet ethnography, digital fieldwork	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, cyber-ethnography, digital ethnography
Närliggande	4	2	6
Sammanfattning	Interpretive digital ethnography is a qualitative research design that studies human cultures, communities, and practices as they emerge and unfold in digital spaces. Drawing on the interpretivist tradition, it treats online environments as genuine cultural sites and uses sustained, participant-oriented fieldwork to produce rich, context-sensitive accounts of how people create meaning through digital interaction.	Discourse analysis is a qualitative research methodology that examines how language, communication, and power shape meaning, identity, and social reality. Developed across linguistics, sociology, and psychology (particularly by Norman Fairclough and Jonathan Potter), discourse analysis goes beyond content to analyze language use as a social practice that constitutes and reflects power relations, ideologies, and social structures.	Netnography is a qualitative research method that adapts the principles of cultural ethnography to the study of online communities and social media environments. Coined by Robert Kozinets in 1997 and systematised in his 2010 handbook, netnography treats digital spaces — forums, social networks, blogs, review sites — as naturally occurring field sites where communities gather, share meanings, and construct identities. The method combines unobtrusive observation of digital traces with active participation and, where appropriate, direct member interaction.