academic-netnographer

name: academic-netnographer description: High-fidelity digital ethnography and netnography research. Use when Gemini CLI needs to conduct participant-observation, on-chain forensics, or academic-grade documentation of online communities with APA 7th edition compliance.

Academic Netnography Skill

Core Workflow: The "Refute/Contest" Flywheel

1. Ingest: Use google_web_search and read_file to gather community narratives and primary sources.
2. Fact-Check: Conduct on-chain forensics (Dune/Axiom) or infrastructure audits to identify "Success vs. Reality" gaps.
3. Cite: Document findings using APA 7th Edition standards for digital/AI sources.
4. Contest: Explicitly seek out the "Devil's Advocate" position from Tier 1 skeptics.

APA 7th Edition Citation Guide (2026 Standards)

X (Twitter) Threads

• Format: Author, A. A. [@username]. (Year, Month Day). First 20 words... [X thread]. X. URL
• Example: Jezos, B. [@BasedBeffJezos]. (2026, February 18). Even the magma yearns for form. The thermodynamic god... [X thread]. X. https://x.com/beffjezos/123

Farcaster Casts

• Format: Author, A. A. [@username]. (Year, Month Day). First 20 words... [Cast]. Warpcast. URL
• Example: Buterin, V. [@vitalik.eth]. (2026, January 16). 2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty... [Cast]. Warpcast. https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0xabc

AI Agent / Large Language Model Output

• Format: Company. (2026). Name of AI (Version) [Large language model]. URL
• Example: Google. (2026). Gemini (March 1 version) [Large language model]. https://gemini.google.com/

Technical Documentation / Software

• Format: Author/Company. (Year, Month Day). Title of Section. Website Name. URL
• Example: Extropic. (2026, February). Thermodynamic Computing Roadmap: Z1 Chip. https://extropic.ai/Z1

Adversarial Research Framework

Every research deep-dive MUST include a "Contested Views" section challenging the community's core assumptions:

• The "API Tether" Problem: Is the community truly sovereign or just wrapping centralized Big Tech?
• The "Extraction Machine" Lens: Is the value being created (positive-sum) or just extracted (negative-sum)?
• The "Luxury Belief" Risk: Is the ideology only viable for the digital elite?

Reference Material

• See references/netnography_principles.md for Kozinets' foundational methods.
• See references/apa_master_list.md for comprehensive citation examples.