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Shooting the evidence: reconstructing social research data for electronic dissemination

Abstract In November 2000 I was approached by a small research group from the Department of Applied Social Science in the University of Stirling. Two research projects on frail older people had recently been completed and findings on sexual expression from within these projects were to be used in a further project exploring the development of online interactive dissemination of such qualitative research. My role (as a paid consultant) was to script, produce and direct a series of sequences re-enacting behaviour observed in the original research projects, so that this could be publicly disseminated on an interactive basis, either through the Internet or on CD-ROM. In this article, I explore some of the technical, ethical and representational issues from the perspective of my own contribution to the project.