Participant observation in the 21st century: How the digital dimension matters for all ethnographers
Published online on February 17, 2026
Abstract
Qualitative Research, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 457-477, April 2026.
Scholarship on participant observation in the digital era has produced a proliferation of labels—virtual ethnography, digital ethnography, and netnography, among others—that often position digitally attuned methods as specialized departures from ...
Scholarship on participant observation in the digital era has produced a proliferation of labels—virtual ethnography, digital ethnography, and netnography, among others—that often position digitally attuned methods as specialized departures from ...