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Stevanovic2022c

2022-10-06T12:52:19Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic; Elina Weiste; Lise-Lotte Uusitalo; |Title=Challenges of client participation in the co-development of social and heal..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic; Elina Weiste; Lise-Lotte Uusitalo;
|Title=Challenges of client participation in the co-development of social and health care services: Imbalances of control over action and the management of the interactional agenda
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Agenda management; Client participation; Conversation analysis; Online interaction; Co-development; Social and health care services; Deontic rights
|Key=Stevanovic2022c
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Journal=SSM-Qualitative Research in Health
|Volume=2
|Pages=100136
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100136
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100136
|Abstract=Client participation is not only about deciding on one's own treatment, but it may also be conceived more generally as the right of the client to influence the planning and development of social and health care services. In this paper, we examine participants' rights to control and influence action in workshops in which social and health care professionals and clients co-develop the social and health care services provided by their municipality. Drawing on conversation analysis as a method, we investigate the interwovenness of the participants' rights to control interaction in the encounter (proximal deontic rights) and their right to decide about those future actions that can have concrete health consequences for them (distal deontic rights). Maintaining that it is the clients' distal deontic rights that underlie the motivation and legitimacy for their participation in the co-development workshops, we ask about the extent to which the clients' distal deontic rights are underpinned and constrained by who has the proximal deontic rights in the situation. The data set involves both face-to-face and online workshops. Our analysis shows that, in the face-to-face workshops, the agenda management by professionals involved control over both proximal and distal action. In the online workshops, the professionals seemed to have technical difficulties that momentarily disrupted the fluency of interaction. Despite these problems, which in principle might have given the clients more space to participate, this did not seem to happen. In contrast, the clients had great difficulties managing the interactional agenda, losing control over both proximal and distal action. Promoting ethical and more balanced client participation in the co-development processes in the future necessitates heightened awareness of the nuanced practices of interaction by which power imbalances are realized.
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Magnusson2023

2022-10-06T12:48:24Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Simon Magnusson; Melisa Stevanovic; |Title=Sexual consent as an interactional achievement: Overcoming ambiguities and social vulnerabili..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Simon Magnusson; Melisa Stevanovic;
|Title=Sexual consent as an interactional achievement: Overcoming ambiguities and social vulnerabilities in the initiations of sexual activities
|Tag(s)=EMCA;
|Key=Magnusson2022
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221119101
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221119101
|Abstract=Sexual consent is advocated around the world to reduce sexual assault. The widespread affirmative consent model emphasizes a need for unambiguous consent. In this paper, we contribute to a deeper understanding of how ambiguities in the initiations of sexual activities are routinely solved to achieve consent. Drawing on conversation analytic research on joint decision-making, and a dataset of 80 cases of sexual initiation in contemporary TV-series and movies, we investigate the interactional practices by which sexual activities are presented as consensual and how consent is achieved across sequences of interaction. We found there to be social advantages of synchronous initiation, compared to sequential verbal initiations, which were associated with various social vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could however be circumvented by two practices, each of which made use of a distinct combination of verbal and embodied resources. While ambiguities exist, our results oppose the idea of sexual consent as a practically hopeless and awkward endeavor. Instead, consent consists of joint action that is achieved through recognizable and systematic ways.
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Koskinen2022

2022-10-06T12:34:06Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Emmi Koskinen; Melisa Stevanovic; |Title=Epistemic calibration: Achieving affiliation through access claims and generalizations |Tag(s)=..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Emmi Koskinen; Melisa Stevanovic;
|Title=Epistemic calibration: Achieving affiliation through access claims and generalizations
|Tag(s)=EMCA; affiliation; atypical interaction; conversation analysis; epistemic access; storytelling
|Key=Koskinen2022
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Journal=Pragmatics
|Volume=32
|Number=3
|Pages=354–380
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.20036.kos
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.20036.kos
|Abstract=Sometimes a division has been made between expressions of knowledge and expressions of emotion, but in the actual instances of interaction, they are deeply intertwined. In this paper we investigate the relationship between these expressions through the notions of affiliation and epistemics. More specifically, we analyze the phenomenon of ‘epistemic calibration’ in response to tellings of personal experience, where recipients fine-tune the strength of their access claims and the degree of their generalizations to be in line with their epistemic statuses in relation to those of the tellers. Drawing on a dataset of Finnish quasi-natural conversations with neurotypical participants and participants diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, we explore how such calibration is done in practice. Our analysis points to different challenges in epistemic calibration, which, we argue, play an important role in influencing the hearing of these responses as less than fully affiliative.
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Stevanovic2022b

2022-10-06T12:30:57Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic; Miira Niska; Henri Nevalainen; Elina Weiste; Camilla Lindholm; Taina Valkeapää; |Title=Discursive contestation in m..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic; Miira Niska; Henri Nevalainen; Elina Weiste; Camilla Lindholm; Taina Valkeapää;
|Title=Discursive contestation in mental health rehabilitation: How Clubhouse support workers expose clients to new interpretative repertoires of work
|Tag(s)=EMCA;
|Key=Stevanovic2022b
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
|Volume=32
|Number=4
|Pages=637–652
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2594
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2594
|Abstract=In our society, work is generally considered central to citizenship and individual well-being. However, paid employment is often out of reach for individuals with mental illness. The Clubhouse model is a community-based rehabilitation programme that therefore offers people with mental illness the possibility to enjoy some social advantages of work. However, the status of the day-to-day Clubhouse activities as “work” is a matter of discursive contestation. Drawing on 29 meetings of a Clubhouse rehabilitation group as data, and using conversation analysis and discourse analysis as methods, this study examines two competing interpretive repertoires that are systematically manifested in this context: the capitalist “paid work” repertoire used by Clubhouse clients and the more flexible “productive activity” repertoire used by support workers. The adoption of these two repertoires reflects two competing discursive agendas, which define the scope of mental health rehabilitation and the role of the client in their own rehabilitation process in distinct ways. From this perspective, the support workers' central institutional task is essentially of a discursive and ideological nature—exposing the clients to new ways of talking about their lives with reference to work.
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Stevanovic2022a

2022-10-06T12:27:46Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic; Arniika Kuusisto; |Title=Conversation Analysis in Research on Children's Ethical and Moral Decision-Making in ECEC |E..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic; Arniika Kuusisto;
|Title=Conversation Analysis in Research on Children's Ethical and Moral Decision-Making in ECEC
|Editor(s)=Arniika Kuusisto
|Tag(s)=EMCA;
|Key=Stevanovic2022a
|Publisher=Routledge
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Chapter=18
|Address=London
|Booktitle=The Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care
|Pages=238–259
|URL=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003017783
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003017783
|ISBN=9781003017783
|Abstract=This chapter focuses on the methodological prospects of using Conversation Analysis (CA) in research on children’s ethical and moral decision-making. We will first introduce some of the previous literature on children’s ethical and moral development and the related decision-making. Then we provide an overview on the acquisition of interactional competence, followed by the intersections of choice making and interaction. Then we will introduce CA as a methodological and analytical approach, followed by our present focus within it, and the empirical application of the apparatus into a video recorded data gathered within Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) contexts. Finally, we conclude by reflecting on the possibilities for using CA in the present and future research in the area.
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Weiste2022a

2022-10-06T12:22:03Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Elina Weiste; Miira Niska; Taina Valkeapää; Melisa Stevanovic; |Title=Goal setting in mental health rehabilitation: References to comp..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Elina Weiste; Miira Niska; Taina Valkeapää; Melisa Stevanovic;
|Title=Goal setting in mental health rehabilitation: References to competence and interest as resources for negotiating goals
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Goal; Decision-making; Conversation analysis; Proposal; Resistance
|Key=Weiste2022a
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health
|Pages=1–16
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-022-00280-w
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-022-00280-w
|Abstract=Goal setting is at the heart of mental health rehabilitation, but its joint negotiation by clinicians and clients has proven to be a challenging endeavor. This paper investigates goal setting decision-making in the context of Clubhouse Communities: non-profit organizations designed to pave the way for the recovery of individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses. Using the method of conversation analysis, we demonstrate how clinicians make and account for proposals to involve clients in the discussion as more equal partners. In these accounts, clinicians highlight the client’s potential in terms of either competence or interest. Clients, in turn, resist clinicians’ proposals by invoking the opposing factor: when clinicians highlight clients’ competence, clients appeal to their lack of interest and vice versa. In this way, clients are able to reject clinicians’ goal-proposals without disagreeing with the rationalizations of their competence or interest. By contrast, jointly formulated decisions are best reached when clinicians focus the talk on the characteristics of the desired activity rather than on the characteristics of the client. In so doing, clients are able to claim personal ownership of the goal.
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Weiste2022

2022-10-06T12:17:05Z

Eerik Mantere:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Elina Weiste; Melisa Stevanovic; Lise-Lotte Uusitalo;
|Title=Experiential expertise in the co‐development of social and health‐care services: Self‐promotion and self‐dismissal as interactional strategies
|Tag(s)=EMCA;
|Key=Weiste2022
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Journal=Sociology of Health & Illness
|Volume=44
|Number=4–5
|Pages=764–780
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13457
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13457
|Abstract=Increasing client involvement in the development of social and health-care services has resulted in clients being invited to present their experiential knowledge in service co-development groups. Nevertheless, research has shown that their opportunities to really contribute to actual decision-making are limited. This article investigates how client representatives initiate turns-at-talk in the decision-making context and the way in which professionals respond to them. Using conversation analysis, we analyzed 15 h of recorded interactions in five co-development workshops. Our data exhibited a systematic pattern that linked client representatives’ self-promoting and self-dismissive turns-at-talk to specific types of responses from professionals. When the client representatives highlighted the relevance of their experiential knowledge for making decisions, the professionals disregarded their contributions. However, if instead, the client representatives cast their experiential knowledge as irrelevant to the decision-making activity at hand, the professionals subsequently appreciated this knowledge. Thus, paradoxically, in order to establish the relevance of their views, client representatives diminished their positions as experiential experts.
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Weiste2022

2022-10-06T12:14:42Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Elina Weiste; Melisa Stevanovic; Lise-Lotte Uusitalo; |Title=Experiential expertise in the co‐development of social and health‐care..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Elina Weiste; Melisa Stevanovic; Lise-Lotte Uusitalo;
|Title=Experiential expertise in the co‐development of social and health‐care services: Self‐promotion and self‐dismissal as interactional strategies
|Tag(s)=EMCA;
|Key=Weiste2022
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Journal=Sociology of Health & Illness
|Volume=44
|Number=4–5
|Pages=764–780
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-022-00280-w
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-022-00280-w
|Abstract=Increasing client involvement in the development of social and health-care services has resulted in clients being invited to present their experiential knowledge in service co-development groups. Nevertheless, research has shown that their opportunities to really contribute to actual decision-making are limited. This article investigates how client representatives initiate turns-at-talk in the decision-making context and the way in which professionals respond to them. Using conversation analysis, we analyzed 15 h of recorded interactions in five co-development workshops. Our data exhibited a systematic pattern that linked client representatives’ self-promoting and self-dismissive turns-at-talk to specific types of responses from professionals. When the client representatives highlighted the relevance of their experiential knowledge for making decisions, the professionals disregarded their contributions. However, if instead, the client representatives cast their experiential knowledge as irrelevant to the decision-making activity at hand, the professionals subsequently appreciated this knowledge. Thus, paradoxically, in order to establish the relevance of their views, client representatives diminished their positions as experiential experts.
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Lindholm2022

2022-10-06T12:11:28Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Camilla Lindholm; Melisa Stevanovic; |Title=Challenges of trust in atypical interaction |Tag(s)=EMCA; atypical interaction; conversation..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Camilla Lindholm; Melisa Stevanovic;
|Title=Challenges of trust in atypical interaction
|Tag(s)=EMCA; atypical interaction; conversation analysis; trust
|Key=Lindholm2022
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Journal=Pragmatics and Society
|Volume=13
|Number=1
|Pages=107–125
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.18077.lin
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.18077.lin
|Abstract=All effective communication is based on the participants trusting that they share their basic orientations to the world – that is, they have a common ground. In this paper, however, we examine situations in which such trust is lacking. Drawing on conversation–analytic methodology and on 30 hours of video data featuring persons with dementia and their caregivers in a Swedish-language daycare center in Finland, we consider some of the social consequences resulting from a lack of trust. Our analysis focused on three different interactional contexts, highlighting the relevance of different facets of the participants’ common ground. These facets are anchored in the deontic, epistemic, and emotional orders, respectively. We show that, with regard to each order, a lack of trust in the existence of common ground has drastic consequences, leading to (1) problems related to getting one’s will acknowledged, (2) a scarcity of conversational partners, and (3) a lack of resources to maintain affection.
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Paananen2021

2022-10-06T12:06:34Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Jenny Paananen; Melisa Stevanovic; Taina Valkeapää; |Title=Expressing thinking in institutional interaction: Stancetaking in mental he..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Jenny Paananen; Melisa Stevanovic; Taina Valkeapää;
|Title=Expressing thinking in institutional interaction: Stancetaking in mental health rehabilitation group discussions
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Epistemics; Institutional interaction; Interactional linguistics; Stancetaking; Thought expression
|Key=Paananen2021
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=184
|Pages=152–166
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.026
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.026
|Abstract=This paper focuses on the stancetaking formats used to express personal thoughts, namely Finnish mä aattelen/aattelin ‘I think/thought’, mä mietin ‘I think/wonder’, and mun mielestä/musta ‘I think/in my opinion’. We study how these first-person formats are used in mental health rehabilitation group meetings, which aim to promote joint decision-making. In particular, we analyze whether the institutional asymmetry between support workers and clients is reflected in the use of these thought expressions. Our data comprise 23 video-recorded rehabilitation meetings, and the adopted methods are conversation analysis and interactional linguistics.

Most of the stancetaking formats in our data are produced by support workers (106/129). The results of a sequential analysis conducted in this study demonstrate that support workers' thought expressions are embedded in their institutional actions, which are beyond the clients' authority. Moreover, our data suggest that support workers' and rehabilitants' thought expressions generate different participation dynamics. Although previous research has considered I think-formats typically as calls for other views, in institutional settings such as ours, these formats can also be interpreted as highlighting an institutional agent's controlling position. Acknowledging the existence of such differences in stancetaking practices can advance the design of new protocols to facilitate client participation.
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Stevanovic2021c

2022-10-06T11:56:26Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic; |Title=Monitoring and evaluating body knowledge: metaphors and metonymies of body position in children’s music inst..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic;
|Title=Monitoring and evaluating body knowledge: metaphors and metonymies of body position in children’s music instrument instruction
|Tag(s)=EMCA; body knowledge; conversation analysis; metaphor; metonymy; music instruction
|Key=Stevanovic2021c
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Linguistics Vanguard
|Volume=7
|Number=s4
|Pages=20200093
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2020-0093
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2020-0093
|Abstract=This paper examines music instrument teachers’ instructive use of noun metaphors and metonymies of behaviors related to the playing and handling of a musical instrument. Drawing on 10 video-recorded 30–40 min-long instrument lessons as data, and conversation analysis as a method, the paper examines the temporal location of these figurative turns (i.e., instruction turns including a noun metaphor or metonymy) within the instructional activities and in relation to the student’s behaviors. At the beginning of a new instructional sequence, a figurative turn allows the teacher to test and monitor the level of student’s knowledge, while the student orients to a need to demonstrate that knowledge. Figurative turns also enable the teacher to initiate correction in complex movement sequences, its organization as a series of metaphors or metonymies enabling an easy return to an earlier point in a sequence. Furthermore, the flexibility of metaphors and metonymies as interactional resources is evidenced by the ease by which a figurative instruction turn may be transformed into an affirmative evaluation of student conduct. The paper thus suggests that instructing body knowledge through metaphors and metonymies has significant pedagogical advantages, also providing a detailed account for why and how this is the case.
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Stevanovic2021b

2022-10-06T11:52:39Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic; |Title=Three multimodal action packages in responses to proposals during joint decision-making: The embodied delivery..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Melisa Stevanovic;
|Title=Three multimodal action packages in responses to proposals during joint decision-making: The embodied delivery of positive assessments including the Finnish particle Ihan “Quite”
|Tag(s)=EMCA; multimodal action packages; joint decision-making; conversation analysis; proposals; body movements; participation; agency
|Key=Stevanovic2021b
|Year=2021
|Language=English
|Journal=Frontiers in Communication
|Volume=6
|Pages=660821
|URL=https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.660821
|DOI=doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.660821
|Abstract=Joint decision-making is a thoroughly collaborative interactional endeavor. To construct the outcome of the decision-making sequence as a “joint” one necessitates that the participants constantly negotiate their shared activity, not only with reference to the content of the decisions to be made, but also with reference to whether, when, and upon what exactly decisions are to be made in the first place. In this paper, I draw on a dataset of video-recorded dyadic planning meetings between two church officials as data, investigating a collection of 35 positive assessments with the Finnish particle ihan “quite” occurring in response to a proposal (e.g., tää on ihan kiva “this is quite nice”). The analysis focuses on the embodied delivery of these assessments in combination with their other features: their sequential location and immediate interactional consequences (i.e., accounts, decisions, abandoning of the proposal), their auxiliary verbal turn-design features (i.e., particles), and the “agent” of the proposals that they are responsive to (i.e., who has made the proposal and whether it is based on some written authoritative material). Three multimodal action packages are described, in which the assessment serves 1) to accept an idea in principle, which is combined with no speaker movement, 2) to concede to a plan, which is associated with notable expressive speaker movement (e.g., head gestures, facial expressions) and 3) to establish a joint decision, which is accompanied by the participants’ synchronous body movements. The paper argues that the relative decision-implicativeness of these three multimodal action packages is largely based on the management and distribution of participation and agency between the two participants, which involves the participants using their bodies to position themselves toward their co-participants and toward the proposals “in the air” in distinct ways.
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Weiste2020a

2022-10-06T11:44:11Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Elina Weiste; Sari Käpykangas; Lise-Lotte Uusitalo; Melisa Stevanovic; |Title=Being heard, exerting influence, or knowing how to play t..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Elina Weiste; Sari Käpykangas; Lise-Lotte Uusitalo; Melisa Stevanovic;
|Title=Being heard, exerting influence, or knowing how to play the game? Expectations of client involvement among social and health care professionals and clients
|Tag(s)=EMCA; client involvement; client participation; cultural change; co-development; conversation analysis; social and health care professionals; interaction; qualitative research
|Key=Weiste2020a
|Year=2020
|Language=English
|Journal=International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
|Volume=17
|Number=16
|Pages=5653
|URL=https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165653
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165653
|Abstract=Contemporary social and health care services exhibit a significant movement toward increasing client involvement in their own care and in the development of services. This major cultural change represents a marked shift in the client’s role from a passive patient to an active empowered agent. We draw on interaction-oriented focus group research and conversation analysis to study workshop conversations in which social and health care clients and professionals discussed “client involvement”. Our analysis focuses on the participants’ mutually congruent or discrepant views on the topic. The professionals and clients both saw client involvement as an ideal that should be promoted. Although both participant groups considered the clients’ experience of being heard a prerequisite of client involvement, the clients deviated from the professionals in that they also highlighted the need for actual decision-making power. However, when the professionals invoked the clients’ responsibility for their own treatment, the clients were not eager to agree with their view. In addition, in analyzing problems of client involvement during the clients’ and professionals’ meta-talk about client involvement, the paper also shows how the “client involvement” rhetoric itself may, paradoxically, sometimes serve to hinder here-and-now client involvement.
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Mantere2022

2022-07-28T20:19:59Z

Eerik Mantere: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Eerik Mantere; |Title=Smartphone Moves: How Changes in Embodied Configuration with One’s Smartphone Adjust Conversational Engagement |..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Eerik Mantere;
|Title=Smartphone Moves: How Changes in Embodied Configuration with One’s Smartphone Adjust Conversational Engagement
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Smartphones; Social Interaction; Engagement; Multimodality; Conversation Analysis
|Key=Mantere2022
|Year=2022
|Language=English
|Journal=Social Sciences
|Volume=11
|Number=5
|Pages=216
|URL=https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/5/219
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11050219
|ISBN=2076-0760
|Abstract=Smartphones are often spontaneously used for personal purposes and during face-to-face gatherings. New terms like “phubbing” and “technoference” describe negative consequences of this behavior, but analysis of the actual everyday social situations where smartphones feature has largely been neglected. This article shows how simultaneous smartphone and conversational engagements are shaped by participants’ embodied conduct. A naturally occurring three-party conversation in a Finnish café is analyzed in detail to show how changes in embodied user–smartphone configuration impact ongoing conversation. User–smartphone configuration consists of the smartphone’s location, its physical relation to its user’s hands, and its screen direction in relation to the user’s head. User-smartphone configuration can manifest a change in an interactive footing in conversation, function as a turn-holding device, and organize a change in the conversational state. New methods and concepts for studying smartphone use in social situations are introduced. “Smartphone positions” refers to the embodied user–smartphone configurations that are oriented as manifestations of degrees of user–device engagement. “Smartphone moves” are the changes in smartphone positions, and they carry sequential relevance. Increased smartphone engagement is seen as decreased conversational engagement and vice versa. Making interactive resources available for one engagement manifests as an accountable event of disengagement from another. Engagement and disengagement are argued to be a continuum rather than a contrast pair.
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