Should we share qualitative data? Epistemological and practical insights from conversation analysis

Over the last 30 years, there has been substantial debate about practical, ethical and epistemological issues uniquely associated with qualitative data sharing. In this paper, we contribute to these debates by examining established sharing practices in Conversation Analysis (CA). CA is an approach analysis of social interaction that relies on audio/video recordings naturally occurring human interactions moreover works at a level detail presents challenges for assumptions participant anonymity. Nonetheless, occupies central position both methodology wider academic culture as discipline community. Despite this, largely ignored discussions. We argue methodological traditions present strong case value offer open might be usefully adopted other approaches.