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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: Complexity of (inter)action<br>
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University of Oulu, Finland, <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">9</span></span>–<span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">11 October 2014</span></span><br>
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Website: <a href="http://www.oulu.fi/coact" target="_blank">www.oulu.fi/coact</a><br>
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In the contemporary world social interactions take place in settings
that involve multiple participants, multiple courses of action, multiple
tasks, (mobile) technologies, objects, materials, multiple sites and
multiple languages. Such settings are often highly multimodal and can
involve complicated participation frameworks and networks, or the
interaction in them is technologically mediated or spatially and
temporally distributed. The term ‘complexity’ is frequently used to
describe the context, organization and structure of action and
interaction in such settings, and hence much of previous research has
approached complexity merely as a characteristic of the interactional
setting and the multiplicity of the features in it. However, there is a
need to pay focused analytic attention to the dynamics of how
participants organize and coordinate their actions in such environments.
Furthermore, there is a perceived need to come to a better and more
detailed understanding of what constitute practical and effective – i.e.
skilled – social practices and social conduct in such settings.<br>
<br>
Call for papers<br>
<br>
In the "Complexity of (inter)action" symposium, we wish to explore
complexity from diverse perspectives and focus on examining how social
participants manage, coordinate and adapt to complexity, and display
complexity socially to others, through skilled multimodal participation.
We are also interested in studies that expand the notion of
interactional complexity to include the participants’ histories and
interactions across multiple timescales.<br>
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The symposium has four invited speakers:<br>
- Monika Büscher, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University<br>
- Trine Heinemann, Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark<br>
- Eric Laurier, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh<br>
- Maurice Nevile, Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark<br>
<br>
We now invite proposals for symposium presentations that examine diverse
communities and complex social (inter)actions in different settings,
including technologically mediated and copresent activities. The
theoretical starting points may include conversation analysis,
interactional linguistics, multimodal interaction analysis, mediated
discourse analysis, and related fields of study that use a range of
audio, video, textual and other ethnographic materials as their data.<br>
<br>
General themes for papers include (but are not limited to) the following:<br>
<br>
1. What constitutes complexity in (inter)action?<br>
2. What constitutes skilled (inter)action and skilled participation?<br>
3. How do participants organize their skilled (inter)action in multimodal contexts?<br>
4. How does participation change and develop over time?<br>
5. How can skilled participation in complex settings be maintained and supported?<br>
<br>
Presentation formats include<br>
- paper presentation (30 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion),<br>
- data session (40 minutes for introduction to and discussion of data) and<br>
- poster presentation (display of poster throughout the symposium and 5
minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion during a Poster
Walk).<br>
<br>
These formats allow for in-depth exploration of data by the presenters, invited speakers and audience.<br>
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Participation<br>
<br>
Proposals for papers, posters or data sessions should be submitted as
abstracts of about 300 words (2,000 characters), including any
bibliographic references. Please include in the abstract a description
of your 1) aims, 2) theoretical and methodological background, 3)
materials, and 4) (preliminary) findings. Please also provide up to five
keywords. The proposals should be submitted by <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">1 June 2014</span></span> via an online form at <a href="https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/D5EE048BD2061DD1.par" target="_blank">https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/D5EE048BD2061DD1.par</a><br>
Authors will be notified of acceptance by the end of June 2014.<br>
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All participants (including participants without a presentation) should register by <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">31 August 2014</span></span> via an online form at <a href="https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/0925730ED91794C2.par" target="_blank">https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/0925730ED91794C2.par</a><br>
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Important deadlines<br>
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<span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">1 June 2014</span></span> – Deadline for the submission of abstracts<br>
<span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">30 June 2014</span></span> – Information about the decisions of the review process<br>
<span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">31 August 2014</span></span> – Registration ends<br>
<span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">9</span></span>–<span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">11 October 2014</span></span> – International symposium<br>
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Venue<br>
Lasaretti Hotel and Restaurant (<a href="http://www.lasaretti.com/en" target="_blank">www.lasaretti.com/en</a>)<br>
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Registration fees<br>
There will be no registration fee for the symposium.<br>
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About COACT<br>
The symposium is organized by the COACT research community which was
formed in 2012. COACT – Complexity of (inter)action: Towards an
understanding of skilled multimodal participation is one of the research
communities in the likewise newly formed Eudaimonia Research Center (<a href="http://www.oulu.fi/eudaimonia" target="_blank">www.oulu.fi/eudaimonia</a>)
at the University of Oulu, Finland. Our research in COACT focuses on
how language and multimodal resources feature in the complexity of
social action and interaction, and how social participants skillfully
manage and organize their conduct at complex sites of learning, work and
everyday life. The COACT research community was recently evaluated as
part of an international assessment at the University of Oulu (RAE2013).
It received the rating ‘excellent’ in the highest participation
category (world-class research).<br>
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For more information contact the members of the COACT community; see the following website: <a href="http://www.oulu.fi/coact" target="_blank">www.oulu.fi/coact</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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