Netnography: Redefined - Softcover

Kozinets, Robert

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ISBN 10: 1446285758 ISBN 13: 9781446285756

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015

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Social media and Internet data offer rich opportunities and vexing challenges for sociocultural research. Explaining and extending prior approaches, Netnography: Redefined is an indispensable guide to the understanding and conduct of Internet ethnography.

With this volume, netnography is upgraded, updated and renewed with the latest netnographic research from media anthropology, geography, education, library sciences, travel and tourism, linguistics, media and cultural studies, sociology, sexuality, addiction research, gaming studies, and nursing, and multiple examples from the worlds of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites.

Like its predecessor, Netnography: Redefined includes full, step-by-step procedural guidelines for the accurate and ethical conduct of netnography. Yet this edition adapts netnography to include big data and social media analytics, as well as further incorporating notions of network analysis. It deepens the practice of netnography through participative engagement, introspection, alternative representation, and a new humanist focus.

Netnography: Redefined presents readers with up-to-date guidelines for the most fully realized and distinctive form of online ethnographic research yet developed.

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About the Author:

Robert V. Kozinets is a globally recognized expert on social media, marketing, branding and innovation. Besides inventing netnography, he has authored and co-authored over 100 pieces of research on the intersection of technology, media, brands, and consumers.

Robert V. Kozinets has developed social media research methods that are widely used in universities and companies around the world. In 1995, in study of activism and media fan community, he invented netnography. Since that time, he has been refining the approach and applying it to gain a deeper understanding of our current social and communication landscape. Asking questions about technology, commodification, utopia, and desire, his research pushed disciplinary boundaries to open up a more integrative, cultural, moral, and passionate form of studying and theorizing emerging social media ecosystems. He currently holds the Jayne and Hans Hufschmid Chair of Cultural Social Media Research at the University of Southern California′s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

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Robert Kozinets has long been a transformative figure in the field of consumer research and brand cultures. His netnography approach has been widely taught, and embraced by industry practitioners, as a means to gain in-depth qualitative insights into the ways people make meaning of their everyday relationships with brands. -- Henry Jenkins

In this new edition of Netnography, Kozinets expands on his original insights to provide a wonderfully comprehensive guide to researching online socialities. These socialities are real and interaction in them is, in its own way, powerfully face-to-face. We need far more high-quality research in this area, and Netnography can help guide scholars to make this a reality. -- Tom Boellstorff

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