Charles and Marjorie Harness Goodwin (affectionately known as Chuck and Candy respectively) have a special place in the top rank of pioneers of interaction studies. Their scholarship, enterprise and enthusiasm has inspired many generations of young researchers. I’m delighted that Elliott Hoey and Don Everhart agreed to report on an event held to commemorate the Goodwins’ achievements.
Guest blog: Wendy Archer on collecting data in very sensitive environments
When interactional researchers step out into the medical world to collect data, they might be recording people in discomfort, pain or distress. As well as the researchers’ own conscience and ethics, institutional and legal rules should ensure that dignity and propriety are respected. Wendy Archer gives a personal and topical account of her own work in the very sensitive environment of end-of-life care.
Wendy Archer, Nottingham University
Guest Blog: Kristine Muñoz on the Women’s March on Washington DC
As academics and civilians, ROLSI readers and writers are sometimes party to momentous events on the political and cultural stage. I’m proud and delighted to host a guest blog by ethnographer, friend, and distinguished ex-Editor of ROLSI, Kristine Muñoz, on her participation in the January 21, 2017, Women’s March on Washington.
Kristine Muñoz, University of Iowa
Loughborough’s CA Days – the 10th Anniversary
2016 was the 10th successive year we’ve held a Conversation Analysis Days at Loughborough University’s Department of Social Sciences. Here’s a brief account of how we got here, and why we think that it’s such a popular and enjoyable occasion. Charles Antaki and Liz Stokoe, organisers.
Charles Antaki
Liz Stokoe
It started out as a bright idea to invite friends and colleagues doing CA to come to a day’s meeting at Loughborough – no real reason, other than a sudden enthusiasm of the ‘let’s put a show on right here in the barn‘ type, and a list of people we wanted to see.
Guest blog: Marina Cantarutti on the latest EM/CA Bootcamp
One of the most enjoyable (if challenging) episodes in young scholars’ induction into the discipline is the chance to spend time in intensive discussion with peers and mentors. I’m delighted to feature a report by Marina Cantarutti, PhD student at the University of York, on the latest “EM/CA Bootcamp”, organised by the very active group at the University of Southern Denmark.
Marina Cantarutti
Guest blog: Anna Spagnolli and colleagues on editing the Special Issue on meditated interaction
ROLSI is proud to host occasional Special Issues devoted to topics of particular interest or significance. In this guest blog, Anna Spagnolli, Ilkka Arminen and Christian Licoppe tell the story of their editorship of a new SI on the very lively topic of mediated interaction – communication via phone, text, videoconference and a host of other modern technological media.
The editors of the new ROLSI Special Issue on mediation interaction
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Guest blog: Andrew Carlin on a posthumous book by Stephen Hester
In an earlier guest blog, Andrew Carlin recounted the genesis and current scope of the influential ethnomethodological book series Directions in Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis. He looked forward to the appearance of a book that the late Stephen Hester had on the blocks before his passing; here he remembers Steve and talks about the book and its contents.
Andrew Carlin
Guest blog: Bogdana Huma on the interactional analysis of economic encounters
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have made significant advances in our understanding of how institutions work, but the business of economics has proved rather a tougher nut to crack. In this welcome blog, Bogdana Huma reports on a recent syposium on “economic encounters”. In a well-appointed attic in Maastricht, symposiasts analysed bazaars, cheese shops, cold calling, and much more….
Bogdana Huma, Loughborough University
Guest blog: Joe Ford on the AWIA meeting on Action Description
We can’t always manage to get to the conferences we want to, and here Joe Ford very kindly sends in a report on an attractive meeting that many of us will have missed because of teaching duties in term-time. ‘Action description’ is a hot topic at the moment (along with other members of the ‘action’ suite – formation and recognition), so this is a very welcome bulletin from the front line.
Joe Ford, Loughborough University
Guest blog: Jacob Davidsen and Paul McIlvenny on Experiments with Big Video
How good are your video records? One angle? Two? Wide-angle? Was the camera static or did you move to catch things – and miss other things? How good was the sound? All of us have occasionally been frustrated with what we find on the screen when we come to analyse it, but Jacob Davidsen and Paul McIlvenny have some more fundamental concerns. Just how “big” should data be?
Paul McIlvenny (l.) and Jacob Davidsen
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