ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a variety of approaches to constructing data that does embodiment with humans, actants, and discourses in a number of modes, including fieldnotes, recordings, transcripts, and participant-created data. It reviews critiques of recording and transcription practices as they relate to doing embodiment through data. Creating an audio recording is not a neutral or inconsequential act, yet qualitative researchers tend to treat them as though they were, manipulating and drawing on them in their constructions of participants' meaning. Using photos from photovoice projects, participant drawings or maps that one have scanned, or clips from recordings, visually connect images and sounds to the words of a transcript to facilitate multisensorial knowing through the intra-action of the visual, written, and auditory. Researchers are taught to construct data to focus on the meanings and words of humans, including other objects and the contextual space under study as background material.
