Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Οπτικο-επαγωγική αυτοεθνογραφία	Αυτοεθνογραφία	Αφηγηματική Διερεύνηση
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτική Έρευνα
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2000s–2010s	Late 20th century (term coined 1979; method consolidated 1990s–2000s)	2000
Δημιουργός	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	D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly
Τύπος	Qualitative self-study design	Qualitative research method	Method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	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	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. Jossey-Bass.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	VEA, photo-elicitation autoethnography, visual autoethnography, image-elicited autoethnography	auto-ethnography, AE, personal narrative research, self-ethnography	Narrative Analysis, Narrative Research, Life Story Method
Συναφείς	3	6	3
Σύνοψη	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.	Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that treats stories and life narratives as primary data, analyzing how individuals construct meaning and identity through storytelling. Developed by D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly (2000), narrative inquiry examines the narratives people tell about their lives, experiences, and transitions, understanding that people make sense of experience through narrative.