Сравнение на методи

	Визуална елицитационна автоетнография	Автоетнографията	Рефлексивен тематичен анализ
Област	Качествени методи	Качествени методи	Качествени методи
Семейство	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Година на възникване	2000s–2010s	Late 20th century (term coined 1979; method consolidated 1990s–2000s)	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
Създател	Synthesised from Douglas Harper (photo elicitation, 2002) and Heewon Chang (autoethnography as method, 2008); popularised in education and health humanities research in the 2010s	Carolyn Ellis, Arthur Bochner, Norman Denzin (prominent theorists); David Hayano coined the term in 1979	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
Тип	Qualitative self-study design	Qualitative research method	Qualitative research method
Основополагащ източник	Chang, H. (2008). Autoethnography as Method. Left Coast Press. ISBN: 978-1598741230	Ellis, C. (2004). The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759100947	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Други названия	VEA, photo-elicitation autoethnography, visual autoethnography, image-elicited autoethnography	auto-ethnography, AE, personal narrative research, self-ethnography	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
Свързани	3	6	6
Резюме	Visual elicitation autoethnography (VEA) is a qualitative self-study method that combines the personal narrative orientation of autoethnography with the stimulus power of visual artefacts — photographs, drawings, or found images — to prompt and deepen autobiographical reflection. The researcher produces or selects images from their own life, then uses those images as elicitation tools to generate rich written or spoken narratives about a cultural phenomenon they have lived through, positioning the self as both researcher and research subject.	Autoethnography is a qualitative research method in which the researcher uses systematic self-reflection and personal narrative to examine their own experiences within a cultural, social, or organizational context. By treating the self as both subject and instrument, autoethnography connects individual lived experience to broader cultural patterns, making personal stories analytically and socially significant. It bridges autobiography and ethnography, producing accounts that are simultaneously evocative and scholarly.	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.