The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting health and social crisis comprehensively disrupted the research protocols that sociologists have traditionally used to conduct their inquiries. In particular, researchers were forced to rethink empirical protocols in order to adapt them to social distancing rules. Semi-structured interviews are a notable example, as these were previously usually carried out face-to-face, but became overwhelmingly conducted by telephone or video call. However, remote communication runs counter to certain methodological assumptions that have long been part of the institution of sociology. There are a number of reasons why the use of telecommunications tools is not commonplace, including the widespread idea that “only the observation of the social setting (places and people) that constitutes the interview provides the means to interpret the interview” (Beaud 1996, 234). This research note is based on the experience of remote communication in three studies on different topics (see Box 1), all of which involved biographical interviews. It offers a detailed reflection on our experiences, covering the methodological and epistemological implications of the use of remote communication within remote biographical interviews.We use the term remote interview to mean an interview carried out over the telephone or by video call. Independent of the chosen method (with or without camera), these have the commonality of being carried out remotely (the sociologist is not located in the same spatial environment as the subject) and consequently of bein…