Avgustis2023a

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Avgustis2023a
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Avgustis2023a
Author(s) Iuliia Avgustis, Florence Oloff
Title Collecting and analysing multi-source video data: grasping the opacity of smartphone use in face-to-face encounters
Editor(s) Pentti Haddington, Tiina Eilittä, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen, Anna Vatanen
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Publisher Routledge
Year 2023
Language English
City London
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Pages 85–110
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DOI 10.4324/9781003424888-7/
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Book title Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies
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Abstract

The ubiquity of smartphones has been recognised within conversation analysis as having an impact on conversational structures and on the participants’ interactional involvement. However, most of the previous studies have relied exclusively on video recordings of overall encounters and have not systematically considered what is taking place on the device. Due to the personal nature of smartphones and their small displays, onscreen activities are of limited visibility and are thus potentially opaque for both the co-present participants (“participant opacity”) and the researchers (“analytical opacity”). While opacity can be an inherent feature of smartphones in general, analytical opacity might not be desirable for research purposes. This chapter discusses how a recording set-up consisting of static cameras, wearable cameras and dynamic screen captures allowed us to address the analytical opacity of mobile devices. Excerpts from multi-source video data of everyday encounters will illustrate how the combination of multiple perspectives can increase the visibility of interactional phenomena, reveal new analytical objects and improve analytical granularity. More specifically, these examples will emphasise the analytical advantages and challenges of a combined recording set-up with regard to smartphone use as multiactivity, the role of the affordances of the mobile device, and the prototypicality and “naturalness” of the recorded practices.

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