Linganisha mbinu

	Vidokezo vya Uga vya Simu	Dawa ya Utafiti
Nyanja	Metodolojia ya Dodoso	Metodolojia ya Dodoso
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Mwaka wa asili	2000s–2010s (digital turn in ethnography)	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology
Mwanzilishi	Emergent from digital ethnography practice; theorised notably by Sarah Pink and colleagues	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)
Aina	Qualitative data collection technique	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool
Chanzo asilia	Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lewis, T., & Tacchi, J. (2016). Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice. Sage. ISBN: 978-1446287972	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.
Majina mbadala	digital field notes, smartphone field notes, mobile ethnographic notes, in-situ digital notes	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary
Zinazohusiana	6	6
Muhtasari	Mobile Field Notes is a data collection technique in which researchers use smartphones, tablets, or wearable devices to record observations, reflections, photographs, audio, or video in real time during fieldwork. By capturing data at the moment and place of occurrence, the method reduces recall bias and enables richer, contextually anchored documentation compared with traditional pen-and-paper notes written retrospectively.	A research diary is a systematic, dated log maintained by the researcher throughout a study to record methodological decisions, emergent observations, analytical hunches, and reflections on researcher positionality. Unlike a participant diary, it is authored by the researcher and functions simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument.