Levy-Gardner2012

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Levy-Gardner2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Levy-Gardner2012
Author(s) Mike Levy, Rod Gardner
Title Liminality in multitasking: Where talk and task collide in computer collaborations
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Tag(s) EMCA, Computer-mediated, Communication, Collaborative activity, Conversation Analysis, interaction, language and technology, multimodality, multitasking, *
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Year 2012
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 41
Number 5
Pages 557–587
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DOI 10.1017/S0047404512000656
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Howpublished
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Abstract

This article investigates the effect of computer activity on talk during collaboration at the computer by two pairs of high school students during a web-based task. The work is located in relation to research in the wider world of the workplace and informal settings where multitasking involving talk and the operation of artifacts is known to occur. The current study focuses on how, when two students are working at the computer, talk continues or is disrupted during multitasking. Five examples are described in detail, beginning with a relatively straightforward case of serial multitasking and leading up to an example of complex simultaneous multitasking. Overwhelmingly in our data, only routine on-screen actions accompany talk, whereas complex actions occur with hitches or restarts in the talk, and true simultaneous multitasking happens on just three occasions in the data set.

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