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	Deltagande netnografi	Netnografi
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1997 (netnography); participatory variant codified c. 2010–2020	1997 (coined); 2010 (first comprehensive methodology book)
Upphovsperson	Robert V. Kozinets (netnography foundation); participatory stance elaborated in Kozinets 2010/2020	Robert V. Kozinets
Typ	Qualitative online ethnographic approach	Qualitative research method
Ursprungskälla	Kozinets, R. V. (2020). Netnography: The Essential Guide to Qualitative Social Media Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1526458896	Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Sage. ISBN: 978-1847875907
Alias	participatory online ethnography, active netnography, engaged netnography, participant-observer netnography	online ethnography, virtual ethnography, cyber-ethnography, digital ethnography
Närliggande	4	6
Sammanfattning	Participatory Netnography is a qualitative research approach in which the researcher becomes an active, contributing member of an online community in order to study it from within. Building on Kozinets' netnography framework, it extends the purely observational stance to active participation — the researcher posts, replies, and engages authentically — generating richer, context-embedded data about online social life, consumer culture, or community practices than passive observation alone can provide.	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.