1st Edition

Netnography Unlimited Understanding Technoculture using Qualitative Social Media Research

Edited By Robert V. Kozinets, Rossella Gambetti Copyright 2021
342 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Netnography has become an essential tool for qualitative research in the dynamic, complex, and conflicted worlds of contemporary technoculture.  Shaped by academic fields, industries, national contexts, technologies and platforms, and languages and cultures for over two decades, netnography has impacted the research practices of scholars around the world.  In this volume, 34... Read more

Section 1 – Netnography mobilized

Chapter 1 – Netnography today: a call to evolve, embrace, energize, and electrify - Robert V. Kozinets

Chapter 2 – Netnography to uncover cryptomarkets - Alexia Maddox

Chapter 3 – Netnography to explore gambling practices: situating and advancing discourse and method - Killian O’Leary

Chapter 4 – In the public interest: netnography to impel policy and regulatory change - Robert V. Kozinets, Rossella Gambetti, Ulrike Gretzel, Maribel Suarez and Caroline Renzulli

Section 2 – Netnography territorialized

Chapter 5 – Netnography in the healthcare and nursing sector - Martin Salzmann-Erikson and Henrik Eriksson

Chapter 6 – Netnography in a military context: ethical considerations - Donna Schuman, Donald Schuman, Natalie Pope and Amy Johnson

Chapter 7 – Political netnography: a method for the study of power and ideology in social media - Dino Villegas

Chapter 8 – Netnography in public relations - Margalit Toledano

Chapter 9 – Netnography in tourism beyond Web 2.0: a critical assessment - Rokhshad Tavakoli and Paolo Mura

Section 3 – Netnography industrialized

Chapter 10 – Netnography applied: five key lessons learned from sixteen years of field experience - Michael Bartl and Constance Casper

Chapter 11 – Netnography in the banking sector - José-Serafin Clemente-Ricolfe and Roberto Cervelló Royo

Chapter 12 – The best of both worlds: methodological insights on combining human and AI labor in netnography - Anna Marchuk, Stefan Biel, Volker Bilgram and Signe Worning Løgstrup Jensen

Chapter 13 – Global beautyscapes: an innovation-centered netnography of Chinese skin care and cosmetics consumers - Rossella Gambetti, Robert V. Kozinets, Ulrike Gretzel, Pierfranco Accardo and Luisella Bovera

Section 4 - Netnography humanized

Chapter 14 – Auto-netnography in education: unfettered and unshackled - Elizabeth Howard

Chapter 15 – Getting up, close and personal with influencers: the promises and pitfalls of intimate netnography - Anthony Patterson and Rachel Ashman

Section 5 - Netnography theorized

Chapter 16 – Netnography in human and non-human networked sociality - Sarah Quinton and Nina Reynolds

Chapter 17 – Online ethnography and social phenomena on the move: time construction in netnography and mobile ethnography - Birgit Muskat

Chapter 18 – Netnography in live video streaming - Yi-Sheng Wang

Chapter 19 – Netnography, digital habitus, and technocultural capital - Rossella Gambetti

 

Biography

Robert V. Kozinets is Professor and the Jayne and Hans Hufschmid Chair of Strategic Public Relations and Business Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.  

Rossella Gambetti is Associate Professor of Business Communication at Labcom (Research Lab on Business Communication) in the Department of Business Administration and Management Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.