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	Netnografi	Innehållsanalys
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1997 (coined); 2010 (first comprehensive methodology book)	Systematised through Krippendorff's methodology work; 4th edition 2018
Upphovsperson	Robert V. Kozinets	Klaus Krippendorff (systematic formulation); roots in early 20th-century communications research
Typ	Qualitative research method	Qualitative / mixed-method research technique
Ursprungskälla	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875907	Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506395661
Alias	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, cyber-ethnography, digital ethnography	İçerik Analizi, systematic content coding, quantitative content analysis
Närliggande	6	5
Sammanfattning	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.	Content analysis is a systematic research technique for reducing text, visual, or media material into coded categories so that patterns can be counted, compared, and interpreted. Formalised by Klaus Krippendorff in his widely cited methodology textbook (latest edition 2018), the method sits at the boundary of qualitative and quantitative inquiry: it imposes structured, replicable coding on inherently meaning-laden material.