Auf verschlungenen Forschungspfaden: Erfahrungen mit der Sekund?rnutzung qualitativer Interviewdaten in induktiven, deduktiven und Triangulationsverfahren

Off the beaten research track: Secondary analysis of qualitative interview data in a-priori, post-hoc and triangulation designs?. This article describes three secondary analyses of qualitative interview data about social relationships in online communities, making use of a-priori (theory-driven) as well as post-hoc approaches (such as Grounded Theory) and also looking at the data from a variety of different research contexts and questions. Comparing the different approaches taken shows that both a-priori as well as post-hoc designs might successfully be applied in secondary analyses. Furthermore, loss of con text when reusing data does not necessarily lead to a decrease in data quality and explanatory power. Secondary analyses might thus constitute a meaningful