Methodological concerns in online translation community research: a reflexive netnography on translator’s communal habitus

This article attempts to integrate Kozinets’ netnography and Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology as a promising methodology study the communal habitus of online translation community Fixsub. We closely examine methodological issues encountered orientates address three interrelated questions: How should researcher posit his/her scholarly position in an community? is researcher–participant relationship built within virtual settings? does balance traditional dichotomy between subjectivity objectivity during participation? conclude that research requires have ongoing immersion fieldsite, well state participant objectivation assess own positionality relation object negotiate mutual shaping researcher.