Methoden vergleichen

	Digitale Reflexive Thematische Analyse	Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2006 (RTA foundation); digital application consolidated ~2019–2022	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
Urheber	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke (reflexive foundation); extended by digital qualitative researchers	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
Typ	Qualitative analytic method	Qualitative research method
Wegweisende Quelle	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2022). Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide. Sage. ISBN: 978-1473953246	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Aliasnamen	digital RTA, online reflexive thematic analysis, RTA for digital data	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
Verwandt	6	6
Zusammenfassung	Digital Reflexive Thematic Analysis (Digital RTA) applies Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic analysis framework to qualitative data generated in or collected from digital environments — including social media posts, online forums, chat transcripts, email, digital interviews, and other online texts. It foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role and treats theme generation as a creative-analytic act shaped by the analyst's theoretical positioning rather than a mechanical coding procedure.	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.