31.2464, Calls: Applied Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:17:22
From: Florence Oloff [florence.oloff at oulu.fi]
Subject: Technology use in social interaction: enabling vs. constraining participation

 
Full Title: Technology use in social interaction: enabling vs. constraining participation 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Florence Oloff
Meeting Email: florence.oloff at oulu.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Panel organizers: Florence Oloff, Iuliia Avgustis, Samira Ibnelkaïd, Joonas
Råman (University of Oulu)

Panel abstract: While notions such as artificial intelligence, social robotics
or virtual reality are making the headlines and predict new ways of living and
communicating, our daily lives are already closely entwined with mundane
technologies in less spectacular and often unnoticed ways. This panel aims at
investigating how ordinary technologies such as laptops, smartphones, tablets,
smart speakers and other touch- or voice-based interfaces are used in social
interaction, either as a means for enhancing joint, multimodal action or as a
tool that possibly hampers participation. Within socio-linguistic and
discursive approaches, research on new communication technologies has a
long-standing focus on remote interactions and new forms of texts, images or
their combinations (e.g. online communication, identities or discourses) but
has scarcely acknowledged the role of mundane technologies with respect to
multimodal, embodied social practices in co-presence. More recently however, a
growing interest has been recorded within qualitative and interactionally
oriented research approaches regarding the topic of humans interacting with
and via computers/machines, especially so with respect to ubiquitous
communication technologies used in everyday social encounters. This research
has shown that - while technology-related activities in face-to-face settings
can impact on the participants’ availability for others (e.g.
Mantere/Raudaskoski 2017) - participants nonetheless skillfully and
accountably manage their dual involvement with co-present and remote
interlocutors or with on- and offscreen activities (e.g. Aarsand & Melander
Bowden 2019, Brown et al. 2015, Porcheron et al. 2016). Micro-analytic
approaches reveal the interactional work participants engage in for
establishing these new forms of co-presence and joint involvement (e.g. while
using smartphones, İkizoğlu 2019, Raclaw et al. 2016, or voice interfaces,
Porcheron et al. 2018, in video calls, Gan et al. 2020, Licoppe/Morel 2012, or
while video gaming, Piirainen-Marsh 2012, Tekin/Reeves 2017).

This panel aims at uniting researchers from an interdisciplinary field (e.g.
Conversation Analysis, Multimodal Analysis, Phenomenology, Ethnography,
Human-Computer-Interaction, Information and Communication Sciences, etc.) who
study technology use through video recordings of naturally occurring,
non-experimental settings and who are interested in the way everyday
technologies and screens are integrated in linguistic and social practices in
face-to-face encounters. More specifically, the panel will consider how
technology use is linked to participation (Goffman 1981, Goodwin, 1981, 2000),
i.e. how the presence and use of technology can constrain or enable
participation in social interaction, and how this possibly relates to
different levels of technological and digital skills. Contributions to this
panel will either take into account specific groups of participants (e.g.
younger people, elderly citizens, migrant workers, participants concerned by
communication impairment, etc.) or specific tasks and activities within a
given mundane, artistic, institutional or professional setting (e.g. playing,
co-creating, decision-making, accomplishing administrative tasks, sharing and
obtaining information etc.). Through fine-grained analyses of sociality with
and around everyday technologies in various settings, the research presented
in this panel will also advance our understanding of digital literacy, or more
accurately, of “technobodily literacy”, as a multisensorial and situated
practice.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts of 250-500 words need to be submitted by October 25, 2020 via the
IPrA submission system (see https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP for full
submission instructions). If you are interested in participating in this panel
(and prior to submitting your abstract), please contact the panel organizers
(florence.oloff at oulu.fi) well before the October 25 deadline.




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