Haddington-etal2012

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Haddington-etal2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Haddington-etal2012
Author(s) Pentti Haddington, Sami Frogell, Anna Grubert, Heidi Huhta, Pauli Jussila, Juha Kinnunen, Antti Korpela, Minna Lehto, Anna Marin, Juho Mäenpää, Lasse Mäkivuoti, Henna Raappana, Joonas Råman, Jaakko Saarela, Annariina Seppänen, Ilkka Suhonen, Johanna Vanhatapio, Lasse Vesisenaho
Title Civil inattention in public places: normalising unusual events through mobile and embodied practices
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Tag(s) EMCA, mobility, immobility, place, space, walking, multimodal interaction analysis, gaze, gesture, the body
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Year 2012
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Journal Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Volume 13
Number 3
Pages Article 7
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Abstract

This article builds on GOFFMAN's work to study how pedestrians display their orientation to unusual events in public places. It focuses on the mobile and embodied conduct of those passing a smartmob event in which a performing group "froze" in a busy transit hub for four minutes. The data comprise audio-video recordings of the event. We identify and analyse routinised mobile and embodied practices by which passers-by "normalise" the unusual event. These include different organisations of body behaviour and the ways in which passers-by walk around and between the performers as individuals and groups. The findings are supported with illustrations.

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