Izabela Bukalska is a cultural sociologist, social researcher at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyn´ski University in Warsaw and Board Member of Polish Sociological Association and European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Her works are particularly rooted in the perspective of symbolic interactionism and grounded theory methodology.Rafał Wis´niewski is Associate Professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyn´ski University in Warsaw. He specialises in the sociology of culture and intercultural communication.Magda Ostrowska graduated of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyn´ski University in Warsaw and is a research fellow at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include social work and the sociology of social problems, volunteering, health and medicine.Graz˙yna Pol is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a social researcher and Head of the Research and Analysis Department at the National Centre for Culture in Poland.

• Introduction - PART I: Note on methodology - 1. Introductory assumptions - 2. Elements of the research process - PART II: Stories in rich sound - 3. The social world of audio documentary creators - 4. Sound and meaning - 5. Documentary as a cooperative (full) sound storytelling - PART III: An audio documentary in the process of the social construction of reality - 6. Processes of education and auto-reflection. The individual dimension - 7. The resonance of audio-documentary – a social dimension - Summary