31.2506, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:03:31
From: Elina Salomaa [elina.h.salomaa at jyu.fi]
Subject: Technologically-mediated interaction in workplaces

 
Full Title: Technologically-mediated interaction in workplaces 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Elina Salomaa
Meeting Email: elina.h.salomaa at jyu.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 11-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

In the 21st century, digital technologies have permeated the everyday
practices in workplaces (Orlikowski & Scott 2016). People use technologies to
interact with their co-workers, to deliver and process information, and to
deal with other tasks related to their work. Thus, we are interacting not only
with other people but also increasingly with digital technology. These
technologies include communication platforms such as email and social media
but also technologies that facilitate co-operation or automate particular work
tasks.

Studies of digital interaction in workplaces have already provided important
insights into the ways technology can change ways of working. For example, due
to the lack of nonverbal cues, participants cannot monitor turns in progress
in the same way as face-to-face, and thus they need to maintain coherence in
virtual meetings by using specific discursive strategies (e.g. Markman 2009).
Conversational norms often differ from ordinary conversation, too, as Skovholt
and Svennevig (2013) show in their article about responding and not responding
in workplace emails. In addition, the more open access to the interaction,
especially on social media platforms, is shown to blur traditional
distinctions e.g. between organizations and their stakeholders (Girginova
2015). On another trend, workplace studies have focused on more complex work
situations, where people work in technology-saturated environments to achieve
both co-located and distributed collaboration (Luff & Heath 2019), or where
the interaction takes place between users and technology (Arminen & Poikus
2009). However, we need more research on how digital practices are embedded in
the everyday practices of organizations. Also, research needs to keep up with
how digitalization in workplaces is connected to societal changes, such as
those caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

This panel brings together the most recent research addressing linguistic and
discursive practices in technologically-mediated organizational contexts. The
focus of the presentations may shed light on, for example, how technologies
support or reshape working practices, how people interact in mediated
settings, and how technologies are interwoven with broader workplace
processes. The presentations may come from various fields such as linguistics,
discourse studies, language and social interaction, media studies, or computer
supported cooperative work.


Call for Papers: 

If you are interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please send your
preliminary abstract (250–500 words) by 11 October 2020 to
elina.h.salomaa at jyu.fi. All abstracts should be submitted individually via the
IPrA submission system (https://ipra2021.exordo.com/login) by 25 October 2020.
Please make sure to select “Technologically-mediated interaction in
workplaces” as the panel for your submission. For further instructions, see
https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=CfP. If you have any
questions, please contact elina.h.salomaa at jyu.fi.




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