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CatherineTam — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:39:40 GMT

Particles2027

ElliottHoey — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:31:53 GMT

Bassetti2026

JakubMlynar — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:16:45 GMT

Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Chiara Bassetti; Erik Boström; Kenneth Liberman; Jakub Mlynář; Robin James Smith; Dirk vom Lehn; |Title=Simmel and Ethnomethodology:..."

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|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Chiara Bassetti; Erik Boström; Kenneth Liberman; Jakub Mlynář; Robin James Smith; Dirk vom Lehn;
|Title=Simmel and Ethnomethodology: Foundational Sociological Issues from a Nondualist Perspective
|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Formal sociology; Intersubjectivity; Membership; Objectivation practices; Phenomenology; Praxis
|Key=Bassetti2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Journal=The American Sociologist
|URL=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12108-026-09693-7
|DOI=10.1007/s12108-026-09693-7
|Abstract=Georg Simmel, despite being a founding father of sociology, is often excluded from the list of the discipline’s principal founders. This neglect of Simmel’s work was perpetuated in ethnomethodology even though, like ethnomethodology, Simmel’s work concerns the minute organization of everyday interaction. It can, therefore, be of considerable importance for ethnomethodological inquiries. A group of ethnomethodologists devoted two years to reviewing Simmel’s corpus to identify and reveal resources that are useful for contemporary sociologists at large. What we discovered exceeded our expectations, and this article discusses some of these conceptual tools and theoretical resources, including praxis as the object of sociological investigations, objectivation practices, membership as degrees of commonness-and-strangeness, and the individual-“unity” relationship. We also review connections between Simmel, Husserl, Garfinkel and other scholars. Both Simmel and Garfinkel were relentless in their refusal to replace the dynamic character of social life with static theoretical constructs. We argue that thinking through their theories together fruitfully impedes sociologists in pursuing dualistic reasoning and re-orients them towards phenomena and issues of great sociological import that have remained largely overlooked, or have receded from view, in current sociology. We conclude that Simmel’s notion of “purely sociological” forms is perfectly consonant with the motivating interest of ethnomethodological researchers, who might employ his conceptual insights to address the lived objectivity of social phenomena empirically. At the same time, this also shows how ethnomethodology is concerned with foundational sociological issues. And, finally, it illuminates Simmel’s textured heritage beyond set, traditional readings of sociological thought and its history.
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Curl2005

AndreiKorbut — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:08:13 GMT

Cox 2023

AndreiKorbut — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:06:19 GMT

Sterie2026

AndreiKorbut — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:02:51 GMT

Auer2026

AndreiKorbut — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:00:01 GMT

Chan2026

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Rudaz2025c

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Winterbottom2025

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Hitzler2024a

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TuncerHeath&Luff2026

SylvaineTuncer — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:06:42 GMT

Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Sylvaine Tuncer, Christian Heath, and Paul Luff |Title=Adapting practices in digital transformation: A video-based, sociomaterial study..."

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Sylvaine Tuncer, Christian Heath, and Paul Luff
|Title=Adapting practices in digital transformation: A video-based, sociomaterial study of hybrid art auctions
|Tag(s)=EMCA;
|Key=TuncerHeath&Luff2026
|Year=2026
|Language=English
|Month=May
|Journal=Information and Organization
|Volume=36
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2026.100623
|Abstract=Beyond the established need for digital skills and a digital mindset, the role of workers on the ground in enabling digital transformation (DT) remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we recast DT as worker-centred practice adaptation with the case of auction sales of fine art and antiques shifting from mainly copresent to hybrid events during the COVID-19 pandemic, which contributed to a drastic acceleration of auction houses’ DT. With a longitudinal, sociomaterial study based on ethnographic fieldwork and video analysis, we show how auctioneers adapted their established practices in radically new and changing material configurations, to coordinate and order bids, to display the source of bids, and to pursue bidders. We show how hybrid copresence is created through new sociomaterial entanglements, reducing asymmetries between remote and copresent participants and bringing them together in a shared virtual environment encouraging participation and bidding. We theorise the empirical findings with three patterns of practice adaptation—imposing, transposing, and changing practices—correlated to the degree to which workers find partial or equivalent resources, or altogether different resources compared to previous material configurations. We integrate these patterns in a dynamic model of workers’ clusters of practices over time, providing a more fine-grained understanding of imbrication, the process through which material and social agencies interact and become interlocked into a durable structure. These finding shed new light on how the capabilities of new technologies are gradually enacted through practice adaptation and clusters of practices, ultimately supporting profound organisational restructuring like DT.
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 Host: InterAct at The University of the Witwatersrand
 Website: www.iiemca27.org
 Bluesky account: @iiemca27.bsky.social
-Contact: Sibongile Horo at sibongile.horo@wits.ac.za
+Contact: interact.hmn@wits.ac.za
 Organising Committee: Catherine Tam (Chair), Daniella Rafaely, Nora-Lee Wales, Jennifer Watermeyer, Victoria Williams.
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 |From date=2027/07/06
 |To date=2027/07/09
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 |Short title=Particles conference
 |Short summary=CFP: Particles in Interaction (2-4 June 2027) at University of Oslo, abstracts due 1 December 2026
-|Announcement text=This conference welcomes papers that take an interactional approach to particles in talk-in-interaction by analyzing recordings of social interaction. By particles we mean small uninflected lexical items such as interjections, modal particles and fixed multi-word expressions which do not contribute to the propositional content of an utterance but instead have interactional and discursive functions. They are used for such things as regulating the interaction, expressing the speaker’s stance, and marking coherence relations between utterances. In actual conversations, such functions may also be carried out by other ‘minimal resources’, such as non-lexical vocalizations, gestures and facial expressions, or by combinations of lexical and non-lexical resources. The conference thus also welcomes contributions that focus on embodied practices that may be used for the same types of action, or combinations of particles and non-lexical resources in multimodal gestalts.
+|Announcement text=Particles in Interaction (2-4 June 2027) at University of Oslo, abstracts due 1 December 2026
 Plenary speakers

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 |Key=Curl2005
 |Year=2005
-|Language=EMCA; Conversation Analysis; Repair; Other-initiated repair; Phonetics; Repetitions;
+|Language=English
 |Journal=Discourse Processes
 |Volume=39
 |Number=1
 |Pages=1-44
-|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15326950dp3901_1?casa_token=Ry3E5DSFS0AAAAAA:bDcNDXJYlucgQgTKAye9aRJTD_g8kwJw0K_zcQNW-hyQV-MknOWAg4c5fcrWW0LwRY0dIn4j0tFx
+|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15326950dp3901_1
-|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326950dp3901_1
+|DOI=10.1207/s15326950dp3901_1
 |Abstract=This study presents a phonetic analysis of repetitions occurring in other-initiated repair sequences in American English. Despite their lexical similarities, the repairs are shown to have 2 distinct phonetic patterns. These patterns correspond systematically with a sequential and interactional difference between fitted and disjunct trouble source turns. Trouble source turns that are fitted are repeated more loudly and have expanded pitch ranges, longer durations, and changes to the articulatory settings. Trouble source turns that are disjunct are repeated more quietly and have nonexpanded pitch ranges, shorter durations, and no major differences in articulation. These turns may provide an example of a way in which the levels of linguistic organization are split, with reproduction of lexico-syntax handling a possible problem in hearing, whereas the phonetics display an orientation to the sequential fittedness of the turn being repaired. This research highlights the interrelationship of phonetic structure and sequence organization.
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 {{BibEntry
 |Key=Cox2023
 |Year=2023
 |Journal=Journal of Health and Social Behavior
 |Volume=64
 |Number=4
 |Pages=537-554
-|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465231194052
+|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221465231194052
 |DOI=10.1177/00221465231194052
 |Abstract=In pediatric medical visits, parents may assume the role of co-caregiver with clinicians. At times, parents challenge physicians’ authority to determine diagnoses and treatments for their children. The present study uses conversation analysis to examine parents’ accounts for their intrusions on medical authority in a corpus of 35 video-recorded pediatric neurology visits for overnight video-electroencephalogram monitoring. I show how parents can exploit their legitimate role as carers to challenge medical authority. Through invoking uncertainty in contexts where they have somehow challenged medical authority, parents can account for their conduct in ways that elide direct conflict with physicians and thereby minimize damage to the physician–family partnership.
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 |Author(s)=Anca-Cristina Sterie; Francesca Bosisio; Ralf J. Jox; Laura Jones
 |Title=Negotiating participation in conversations about care planning between people living with mild neuro-cognitive disorders and their healthcare proxies: a single case analysis
-|Tag(s)=EMCA; Advance Care Planning; Autonomy; Dementia; Interaction; In press
+|Tag(s)=EMCA; Advance Care Planning; Autonomy; Dementia; Medical EMCA
 |Key=Sterie2026
 |Year=2026
 |Language=English
 |Journal=The Gerontologist
 |URL=https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/advance-article/doi/10.1093/geront/gnag011/8487182
 |DOI=10.1093/geront/gnag011

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 |Author(s)=Peter Auer; Elisabeth Zima
 |Title=Does gaze aversion index dispreference or complexity of upcoming answers to questions?
-|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Dispreference; Gaze; Answer complexity; Gaze aversion; Polarity matching; Preference; Question-answer sequences; Type conformity; In press
+|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Dispreference; Gaze; Answer complexity; Gaze aversion; Polarity matching; Preference; Question-answer sequences; Type conformity
 |Key=Auer2026
 |Year=2026
 |Language=English
 |Journal=Frontiers in Communication
 |URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2026.1731835
 |DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2026.1731835
 |Abstract=What counts as a preferred or dispreferred answer to a question and how can it be recognized? These questions have been widely discussed in conversation analysis in recent years, and some well-established diagnostic features of dispreferred answers have been identified. In this paper, we turn to a less well-established feature: gaze aversion. Kendrick & Holler (2017) have previously suggested that answers to polar questions that invert the question's polarity are accompanied by gaze aversion to a statistically significant extent. They argue that this gaze aversion indicates the answer's dispreferred status. We were able to replicate their findings using a large collection of English and German conversational data for polar question-answer sequences. However, we found an even stronger tendency for the answerer to avert their gaze during or after wh-questions, for which, per definition, the concept of preference in terms of polarity matching does not apply. Therefore, we extended the focus of our study to both polar and wh-questions and to alternative concepts of preference: type conformity and pragmatic preference. Only the latter was found to be associated with gaze aversion in a statistically significant way. Thus, we considered an alternative explanation for answerers' gaze aversion, also suggested by Kendrick and Holler (2017): answer complexity. Logistic regression analysis revealed that answer complexity, measured by the number of TCUs and absolute length, as well as hesitations, are significant predictors of gaze aversion, while none of the preference types are. These results demonstrate that gaze aversion does not index dispreference so much as it indexes that a complex answer is about to follow.
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 |Author(s)=Jeffrey Kok Hui Chan; Zhuoqun Jiang; Yixiao Wang
 |Title=‘Sweating the small stuff’: investigating robot ethics in ordinary but complex interactions of the Ubi Problem
-|Tag(s)=EMCA; Robot ethics; Human-robot interaction (HRI); AI Reference List; Trolley problem; Ordinary interaction; City; In press
+|Tag(s)=EMCA; Robot ethics; Human-robot interaction (HRI); AI Reference List; Trolley problem; Ordinary interaction; City
 |Key=Chan2026
 |Year=2026
 |Language=English
 |Journal=AI & Society
 |URL=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02846-1
 |DOI=10.1007/s00146-025-02846-1
 |Abstract=Ordinary yet morally ambiguous and complex human-robot interactions (HRI) are anticipated to become more commonplace as sophisticated robots begin appearing in everyday life. Unlike the extreme, unfamiliar and high stakes ‘life-or-death’ binary choices seen in the Trolley Problem thought experiments of the self-driving car, ordinary interactions are instead quotidian and familiar. Yet these interactions can be interpreted very differently by different users and there are many possible better or worse responses. Responses by the robot can also steer the interaction in an irreversible and undesirable direction. In a theoretical context that primarily focuses on issues of safety and privacy in artificial intelligence, the ethics of ordinary interactions remains under-explored in HRI. In this article, ‘The Ubi Problem’ study poses twenty-six commonplace scenarios that a reading companion robot, ‘Ubi’ and its client, a young child that it is reading to, would likely encounter in the open environment of a public library. After viewing the visual storyboards of these scenarios and through a participatory focus group discussion, expectations of what Ubi should do were drawn out and examined collectively. Findings from this study suggest that these ordinary interactions pose a number of under-explored ethical challenges in HRI. However, the most salient aspects of these challenges can be visualized, examined, and anticipated using the research strategy of ‘The Ubi Problem’. In turn, this suggests that robot designers and communities employing advanced social robots can rely on the approach of ‘The Ubi Problem’ to improve their foresight and to avoid costly pitfalls.
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 |Author(s)=Damien Rudaz
 |Title=Social robots as designed artifacts: the impact of programming tools on “human–robot interaction”
-|Tag(s)=EMCA; Programming tools; Material agency; Social robots; Linguistic practices; Human-robot interaction; Turn-taking models; AI Reference List; In press
+|Tag(s)=EMCA; Programming tools; Material agency; Social robots; Linguistic practices; Human-robot interaction; Turn-taking models; AI Reference List
-|Key=Rudaz2025c
+|Key=Rudaz2026
-|Year=2025
+|Year=2026
 |Language=English
 |Journal=AI & Society
 |URL=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02743-7
 |DOI=10.1007/s00146-025-02743-7
 |Abstract=This work documents how roboticists’ skilled conversational expertise is unavoidably constrained and guided as it is translated into rule-based robots through specific programming tools. To shed light on the social construction of “social” robots, it documents the (material) agency of tools used to script or program robots within the technology company Aldebaran (formerly Softbank Robotics Europe), which specialized in manufacturing and programming the social robots Pepper and NAO and their conversational AI. Conducted over the course of several years among roboticists, this ethnography investigates how programming tools—their variables, publicly exposed events, hierarchy of information, available data streams, and documentation—facilitated the crafting of specific forms of talk (among many) for Pepper. Two types of constraints are examined: those encountered by roboticists when crafting disfluencies and filled pauses (“uhh”) in Pepper’s speech, and those faced when enabling the robot to “continue speaking” after a silence. These constraints produced “paths of least resistance” toward specific designs for the robot, which, in turn, impacted its competence in situated interaction with “end users”. Crucially, these constraints were not inevitable technical limits, but rather resulted from specific assumptions about language and, in particular, what “conversing with a robot” entails. In other words, roboticists’ tools led to the embedding of linguistic practices and a specific organization of talk into their robot. The study concludes with the continued significance of these “paths of least resistance” (and their underlying assumptions about “what conversing is”) in the era of chatbots based on generative AI.
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 |Author(s)=Phineas Edwin Winterbottom; Andrea Bruun; Steven Bloch;
 |Title=Breaking the rules: A conversation analytic study of hospice multidisciplinary team meetings
-|Tag(s)=EMCA; Rules; Conversation analysis; Hospice; Multidisciplinary teams; In press
+|Tag(s)=EMCA; Rules; Conversation analysis; Hospice; Multidisciplinary teams
-|Key=Winterbottom2025
+|Key=Winterbottom2026
-|Year=2025
+|Year=2026
 |Language=English
 |Journal=Discourse Studies
 |URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614456251344039
 |DOI=10.1177/14614456251344039
 |Abstract=Rule-breaking occurs in healthcare settings and is typically pro-social. However, rule-breaking within a hospice setting has not been previously studied. This study investigates rule-breaking within hospice multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings using Conversation Analysis. Eight video and audio recordings of approximately 45-minute-long MDT meetings at one UK hospice were systematically analysed to identify how staff break rules. Rule-breaking was present throughout the data and was characterised by the minimisation of accountability through collectivising pronouns, extreme formulations and laughables. These three features supported rule-breakers to voice potentially transgressive opinions and recommendations that may have provoked criticism from MDT members. Rule-breakers were therefore able to evade social and professional sanctions whilst carrying out pro-social actions that benefit hospice patients, meeting participants, as well as the organisation and progression of the meeting itself. These findings contribute to the existing understanding of rule-breaking and have implications for how institutions understand and address it.
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 |Author(s)=Sarah Hitzler; Jonas Kramer
 |Title=The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters
-|Tag(s)=EMCA; In press; Planning; Temporality; Trajectory; Longitudinal conversation analysis; Projective genres
+|Tag(s)=EMCA; Planning; Temporality; Trajectory; Longitudinal conversation analysis; Projective genres
-|Key=Hitzler2024a
+|Key=Hitzler2026
-|Year=2024
+|Year=2026
 |Language=English
 |Journal=Symbolic Interaction
 |URL=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/symb.1226
 |DOI=10.1002/symb.1226
 |Abstract=This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually re-evoked, used for accounting purposes, and serves to prepare specific actions. This “item of objectivated knowledge” ties together a series of situations. Thereby, members create shared expectations which serve as resources to solve local action problems and which can be revoked once those problems no longer exist.
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