[lg policy] Call for papers: Complexity of (inter)action, University of Oulu, Finland, 9-11 October 2014

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Call for papers: Complexity of (inter)action, University of Oulu, Finland,
9-11 October 2014
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Tiina Keisanen tiina.keisanen at oulu.fi
4:59 AM (6 hours ago)

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: Complexity of (inter)action

University of Oulu, Finland, 9-11 October 2014

Website: www.oulu.fi/coact

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.

Call for papers

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.

The symposium has four invited speakers:
- Monika Büscher, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
- Trine Heinemann, Department of Design and Communication, University of
Southern Denmark
- Eric Laurier, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
- Maurice Nevile, Department of Design and Communication, University of
Southern Denmark

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.

General themes for papers include (but are not limited to) the following:

1. What constitutes complexity in (inter)action?
2. What constitutes skilled (inter)action and skilled participation?
3. How do participants organize their skilled (inter)action in multimodal
contexts?
4. How does participation change and develop over time?
5. How can skilled participation in complex settings be maintained and
supported?

Presentation formats include
- paper presentation (30 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for
discussion),
- data session (40 minutes for introduction to and discussion of data) and
- poster presentation (display of poster throughout the symposium and 5
minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion during a Poster
Walk).

These formats allow for in-depth exploration of data by the presenters,
invited speakers and audience.

Participation

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 1 June 2014 via an online form at
https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/D5EE048BD2061DD1.par
Authors will be notified of acceptance by the end of June 2014.

All participants (including participants without a presentation) should
register by 31 August 2014 via an online form at
https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/0925730ED91794C2.par

Important deadlines

1 June 2014 - Deadline for the submission of abstracts
30 June 2014 - Information about the decisions of the review process
31 August 2014 - Registration ends
9-11 October 2014 - International symposium

Venue
Lasaretti Hotel and Restaurant (www.lasaretti.com/en)

Registration fees
There will be no registration fee for the symposium.

About COACT
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 (www.oulu.fi/eudaimonia)
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).

For more information contact the members of the COACT community; see the
following website: www.oulu.fi/coact

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