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Robert kozinets netnography 2010 is primarily a beginners guide to doing ethnographic. Robert kozinets usc annenberg school for communication. Park used netnography to study how mobile tablet devices and their apps change young adults access to information burford and park, 2014. His netnography approach has been widely taught, and embraced by industry practitioners, as a means to gain indepth qualitative insights into the ways people make meaning of their everyday relationships with brands. Netnography, an online research method originating in ethnography, is understanding social interaction in contemporary digital communications contexts.
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