Many thanks to Andrew Carlin and Marek Czyżewski for inviting me to contribute to the special issue of Przegląd Socjologiczny dedicated to the work of Harvey Sacks.
Special issue - part 1: t.ly/GLUVh
Special issue - part 2: t.ly/ZI7mP
My paper: t.ly/-O1ei
#EMCA #HarveySacks #Sociology
A white logo of BlueSky above the logo of Secuenciando, in a textured paper background in cyan.
Secuenciando just got its own BlueSky account!
Now, on this page, we will continue sharing updates on our study group — one devoted to learning, developing, and promoting conversation analysis locally in Peru 🇵🇪 and South America 🌎.
#EMCA
"More importantly, connections in human relationships unfold through reciprocal patterns of self-disclosure and responsiveness that accumulate across repeated interactions"
Chatbots do not have a 'self' to disclose #EMCA
Title and abstract for the article. Reads: Against Recruiting Participants for Psychology Research Recruiting participants is prevalent in psychology and many social sciences. Although qualitative approaches are often positioned as critical alternatives to quantitative methods, underlying assumptions about recruitment are shared across paradigms. These assumptions are that (a) researchers can determine groups of people with relevant identities, (b) recruitment can be accomplished by naming such identities, and (c) participants so recruited will be able to speak to/from these identities. We draw on discursive psychology, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis to highlight the metatheoretical assumptions of recruiting participants. We show how the categorical logic underpinning recruitment involves problematic power relations. Two case studies illustrate how categories typically characterized as “demographic” (gender and ethnicity) are negotiated by participants in social interaction. We argue that studying naturally occurring data decenters researchers’ agendas and offers a powerful way to realize principles like honoring voice or lived experience. Keywords: recruitment, ethics, discursive psychology, social interaction, categories
While recruitment is often represented as simply the process by which researchers invite and sign volunteers into the research sample, it is, like all social activities,underpinnedby a taken-for-granted inferential infrastructure (Garfinkel, 1967). Rather than conceptualizing recruitment (solely) as a problemfor researchers, our discursive psychology approach allows us to theorize recruitment as a “two-person problem” (Sacks, 1995, p. xxxviii). Thus, we approach recruitment as a practical accomplishment coordinated by both researchers and (possible) recruits. Interactional studies have examined instances of recruitment in telephone surveys (e.g., Nolen & Maynard, 2013) and randomized control trials (Wade et al., 2009), showing that it is a complex interactional accomplishment (e.g., howrecruiters might describe or persuade and how recipients might decline requests to participate). Rather than empirically demonstrating recruitment, in this article, we highlight the categorical logic underlying recruitment with a focus on the aspects that involve unequal power relations. Our aim in providing this brief sketch is to offer a broader conceptualization of recruitment and highlight key aspects for researchers to consider.
oh hey look! what joy! a new (online advance) publication.
my analytic bestie and comrade Dr Emma Tennent and myself offer psychologists a provocative recommendation; don't recruit participants for psychological research. (get in touch if you'd like a copy 💗) #EMCA
psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
Harvey Sacks in the NYTimes - www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/s... #EMCA #harveysacks #conversationanalysis
New from me in Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour! Social theorists have trouble explaining how intersubjectivity is possible if norms are open-ended. I contrast two proposed solutions (offered by Talcott Parsons and Harold Garfinkel), both ultimately unsatisfying. #EMCA 1/4
latest from the #lansibunch 🎉🥰🍾@iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca @lingsocam.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
Gilian stood on a field at Nottingham University with a rainbow in dark skies
Congratulations to ⭐️Dr⭐️ @giliannoord.bsky.social who successfully defended his #EMCA PhD on primary care telephone consultations on Wednesday. There was indeed gold at the end of this rainbow when we (& main supervisor Alison Pilnick) did the mock viva a couple of weeks ago. Brilliant, Gilian! 🌈🥳
and for the communication in healthcare and #emca folk, here's my paper where I put a bunch of pieces of the puzzle together: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
J’ai été ravi de présenter mes études sur #participation, #multisensorialité et #inclusion des jeunes publics dans les lieux culturels, d’échanger avec et de retrouver plusieurs collègues !
#EMCA #Multimodality #AppliedLinguistics #AItLA
#LLL @sdl-univorleans.bsky.social @univorleans.bsky.social
En février, j'ai participé au XXVI Congrès international #AItLA
👉 #Interaction communicative : relations, pratiques, perspectives
qui a eu lieu dans le cadre magnifique du campus de Forlì @unibo.it
#LinguistiqueAppliquée #Inclusion #EMCA
#LLL @sdl-univorleans.bsky.social @univorleans.bsky.social
Q for #EMCA colleagues who recently collected video data of interaction in a room (not a dynamic or follow-along scene). Did you go for action cameras, phones, or camcorders and why?Any limitations regarding resolution, shape/angle or continuous footage time? Any tips pls message me. Thanks!
Sign up for our workshop on Applying CA in Health & Social Care.
#EMCA
The workshop is at Wits in May & will be facilitated by members of the Better Conversations Lab at UCL.
Register: forms.office.com/r/sc2eihHeKu
@jennywatermeyer.bsky.social @daniellarafaely.bsky.social @cathtam.bsky.social
A teenage girl in a school uniform asking "Like, could I be a ... conversationalist?"
A nun, responding to the question "Is that a thing?", by saying "No" and raising her hand.
Career guidance counsellors, tell your students about Conversation Analysis!
#EMCA
The call for participants for the "Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction" is still open - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-a... #emca #sociology
Paper on Analysing “the Sequential Organization of Social Interaction in Exhibitions” #emca #video #sociology #museum
Luise Reitstätter and Carla-Marinka Schorr have published an excellent edited collection titled "Methods of Exhibition Analysis" (open access, in English and German) that showcases…
you hear stories about the thoroughness of fact checkers at the New Yorker, but then they somehow print something calling Schegloff and Sacks "linguists" #emca
Does your research look beyond "AI disruption" to examine actual practices?
Along with @dipanjan-saha.bsky.social, we invite you to propose an abstract for our panel at the #EASST2026 conference in Kraków, 8–11 September.
Submit by 9 March here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
#STS #EMCA #AI
#emca on the timeline - Charles Goodwin’s Professional Vision
Rodney King Trial: “the main evidence used in the defense of the policemen was the tape showing them beating Mr. King.” - presented as an example, *when seen properly*, “of careful police craft work”…
pages.ucsd.edu/~johnson/COG...
This is more of a pragmatic action than word. But its something we'd love to get our teeth into in #EMCA i dont know we've done it yet but maybe? @emdoesca.bsky.social ?
My colleagues and I have been invited by Routledge to put together a book proposal for an edited collection on discourse and interactional perspectives on #humanAIinteraction. The call is quite broad, so the final proposal can be shaped by the contributions we receive #HCI #EMCA #conversationalAI
Perhaps one of the most interesting #EMCA papers I have ever read.
Schegloff's "On some questions and ambiguities in conversation" (1984).
Are interrogative forms the ultimate basis for hearing an utterance as doing questioning?
What is the role of language in making actions recognizable as such?
Album cover for Groove Armada Vertigo showing teeth figures sitting on a sofa in line drawing style
And this album cover is very #EMCA? (it inspired my CARM illustrations)
a film reel that becomes a roadway with three people at the start of a journey, and 'Start' signpost - in a monochrome line drawing
Next CARM workshop for #EMCA researchers wanting to develop their own training - inc development, design, delivery, and evaluating #impact and #benefit
📍📅 Friday 5th June 2026, 10.30-16.30 GMT, online, register: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata... - fee covers 1-2-1 support for CARM Affiliates 💬
Call for Chapters | Edited Volume on Human-AI Interaction: Discourse and Interactional Perspectives
📣 Call for Chapters
@adambrandt.bsky.social, Tony and I are pleased to invite abstract submissions for a proposed edited book, Human-AI Interaction: Discourse and Interactional Perspectives. Potential publisher: Routledge. Please see the Call for Chapters for more details. #EMCA #ConversationalAI
Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction #emca #sociology
The Work Interaction and Technology Group is holding an Advanced Summer Institute providing practical guidance for researchers interested in the…
For video researchers in #emca & elsewhere who still miss the neatness of cutting out sub-clips in classic QuickTime Pro. A MacOS app that does so, and preserves the data quality. github.com/mifi/lossles...
Hi, #EMCA colleagues: have you or your colleagues been awarded a Marie Curie or an ERC for a project involving Conversation Analysis or Interactional Linguistics? If possible, I'd love to be able to have a quick chat with anyone who has been successful or who may have come close to it. Thanks!
