Confronta i metodi

	Analisi Visiva Partecipata	Analisi Tematica
Campo	Qualitativo	Ricerca qualitativa
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1990s (formalized participatory visual methods); Freire roots 1970s	2006
Ideatore	Wang & Burris (photovoice tradition); broader roots in participatory action research (Fals-Borda, Freire)	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
Tipo	Qualitative participatory research approach	Method
Fonte seminale	Wang, C., & Burris, M. A. (1997). Photovoice: Concept, methodology, and use for participatory needs assessment. Health Education and Behavior, 24(3), 369–387.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Alias	PVA, participatory visual methods, collaborative visual inquiry, community-based visual analysis	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Correlati	5	3
Sintesi	Participatory Visual Analysis (PVA) is a qualitative research approach in which community members or research participants actively produce and interpret visual materials — photographs, drawings, videos, or maps — as a means of documenting their own experiences, surfacing knowledge, and informing action. Rather than the researcher imposing an analytical gaze on pre-existing images, participants are co-investigators who create visual data and participate in its interpretation, making the method both epistemologically democratic and particularly powerful for accessing marginalized or hard-to-articulate perspectives.	Thematic Analysis (TA) is a qualitative research methodology for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) in qualitative data. Developed systematically by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2006), TA is flexible and accessible, applicable across diverse theoretical frameworks and data types, making it one of the most widely used qualitative methods in psychology, health research, and social sciences.