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	มานุษยวิทยาสถาบันดิจิทัล	การชาติพันธุ์วรรณนาแบบดิจิทัลเชิงมีส่วนร่วม
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	IE: 1980s–1990s; digital adaptation: 2000s–2010s	2000s–2010s
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Dorothy E. Smith (IE foundations); extended by IE scholars to digital contexts	Sarah Pink and colleagues; building on Christine Hine's virtual ethnography and Kemmis & McTaggart's participatory action research traditions
ประเภท	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010	Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lewis, T., & Tacchi, J. (2016). Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice. Sage. ISBN: 978-1446200957
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Digital IE, online institutional ethnography, virtual institutional ethnography, digital Smith IE	PDE, collaborative digital ethnography, participatory online ethnography, participatory virtual ethnography
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	3
สรุป	Digital Institutional Ethnography (Digital IE) applies Dorothy E. Smith's institutional ethnography framework to digital and online settings. It investigates how institutional ruling relations — the texts, policies, and coordination mechanisms that organize people's everyday lives — operate through digital infrastructures such as platforms, software systems, online documents, and algorithmic processes. The goal is to make visible how digital tools and texts coordinate and subordinate experience to institutional interests.	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.