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Netnography
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Netnography is a specific approach to conducting ethnography on the internet. It is a qualitative, interpretive research methodology that adapts traditional ethnographic techniques to the study of social media. As discussed in this entry, Netnography adds specific practices that include locating communities and topics, narrowing data, handling large digital datasets, analyzing digitally contextualized data, and navigating difficult online ethical matters and research procedures. The nature of researcher immersion and ethnographic (or “netnographic”) participation is also treated rigorously within netnography. The new approach has gained wide acceptance within business research and is spreading to other fields.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kozinets, R. V.
- Affiliations
- York University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Kozinets, Robert V.
- ORCID
- Kozinets, Robert V.
- Venue
- The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-02-11
- Pages
- 1-8
- OpenAlex
- W4248042616
- Cited by
- 635
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 80 · 2025: 85 · 2024: 65 · 2023: 88 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 67 · 2020: 57 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 44 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 1
- Type
- reference entry
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Keywords
- netnography, digital ethnography, social media research, online communities, researcher immersion, online research ethics, digital data analysis, business research methods
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