`Natural' and `contrived' data: a sustainable distinction?

By S. Speer. 2002

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What can conversation analysis contribute to feminist methodology? Putting reflexivity into practice (2002, methodology): “Indeed, my analyses of the evaluations subsequently produced by my participants revealed much about the discursive constitution of prejudice (see Speer, 2002a; Speer and Potter, 2000).”
Qualitative interviews in psychology: problems and possibilities (2005, background): “Although the definition of naturalistic has been a source of some controversy (see, for example, Lynch, 2002; Potter, 2002; Speer, 2002a,b; ten Have, 2002) the criterion used here is that the activity being recorded would have happened as it would have anyway; it is not got up by the researcher,…”
Beyond the observer’s paradox: the audio-recorder as a resource for the display of identity (2013, background): “Furthermore, we should rethink how the notion of ‘naturalness’ has both helped and hindered analyses of social communication (Speer, 2002a, 2002b, 2008).”