Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion : Emerging Methods and New Technologies

This volume discusses current and emerging trends in Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA). Focusing on step-by-step procedures of talk and interaction in real time, EMCA explores how people – through locally-produced, public, and common-sensical practices – accomplish activities together and thereby make sense and create social order as part of their everyday lives. The volume is divided into four parts, and it provides a timely methodological contribution by exploring new questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA for the study of social interaction. It addresses the methodical diversity in EMCA, including current practices as well as those testing its boundaries, and paves the way for the development of future interaction research. At the same time, the book offers readers a glimpse into the ways in which human and non-human participants operate with each other and make sense of the world around them. The authors represent diverse fields of research, such as language studies, sociology, social psychology, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Ultimately, the book is a conversation opener that invites critical and constructive dialogue on how EMCA’s methodology and toolbox could be developed for the purpose of acquiring richer perspectives on endogenous social action. This is key reading for researchers and advanced students on a range of courses on conversation analysis, language in interaction, discourse studies, multimodality, and more. Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements 1 Ethnomethodological conversation analysis in motion: An introduction • Tiina Eilittä, Pentti Haddington, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen, and Anna Vatanen Part 1: Exploring “being a member” 2 How to study interactional history in non-human animals? Challenges and opportunities • Federico Rossano 3 Transcribing human–robot interaction: Methodological implications of participating machines • Hannah Pelikan 4 Ocularcentric participation frameworks: Dealing with a blind member’s perspective • Brian L. Due Part 2: Broadening the analyst’s access to a member’s perspective by using various video materials 5 Collecting and analysing multi-source video data: Grasping the opacity of smartphone use in face-to-face encounters • Iuliia Avgustis and Florence Oloff 6 From distributed ecologies to distributed bodies ininteraction: Capturing and analysing “dual embodiment” in virtual environments • Laura Kohonen-Aho and Pentti Haddington 7 360-cameras used by a team participating in a mobile gathering • Pirkko Raudaskoski Part 3: Augmenting analyses of the member’s perspective with multiple research materials and methods 8 Inductive approach in EMCA: The role of accumulated ethnographic knowledge and video-based observations in studying military crisis management training • Antti Kamunen, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen, and Pentti Haddington 9 A satellite view of spatial points in conversation • Joe Blythe, Francesco Possemato, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear, Rod Gardner, and Lesley Stirling 10 EMCA informed experimentation as a way of investigating (also) “non-accountable” interactional phenomena • Melisa Stevanovic Part 4: Enhancing transparency of analytical processes 11 Beyond video: Using practice-based VolCap analysis to understand analytical practices volumetrically • Paul McIlvenny and Jacob Davidsen 12 Recurrent problems and recent experiments in transcribing video: Live transcribing in data sessions and depicting perspective • Eric Laurier and Tobias Boelt Back Index