Accessing and using data without informed consent: guiding principles from conversation analysis

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Abstract:: 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.

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Publisher:: Taylor and Francis Group
Journal:: Research on Language and Social Interaction More from this journal
Volume:: 58
Issue:: 2
Pages:: 113-120
Publication date:: 2025-05-27
Acceptance date:: 2025-03-24
DOI:: 10.1080/08351813.2025.2484986
EISSN:: 1532-7973
ISSN:: 0835-1813

Copyright holder:: Joyce et al.
Rights statement:: © 2025 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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