2025/04/03 by Jack B. Joyce, Bethan Benwell, Ruth Parry +1 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/08351813.2025.2484986
openalex publication_date 2025/04/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
We critically reflect on ethical challenges of making, accessing, and using audio/video recordings for social research in which participants have not and/or cannot provide informed consent. We distinguish between two types of data: recordings for which informed consent for use for research purposes would have been feasible but was not obtained, for example, “classic” or “legacy” data collected during the early development of Conversation Analysis; and recordings for which informed consent for use for research purposes was, or will be, impossible to secure, for example, when participants’ contact details are unavailable or seeking consent could pose risks to researchers or other participants. We propose a set of guiding principles for the collection, access, and use of audio/video data for which participants’ consent for use for research purposes is absent.