El presente trabajo analiza la gestión comunicativa en Twitter de los atentados terroristas ocurridos en La Rambla de Barcelona y en Cambrils los días 17 y 18 de agosto de 2017. Se investiga el uso que hicieron de la plataforma las instituciones públicas competentes encargadas de la gestión de la emergencia. El análisis se focaliza en el período comprendido entre el 17 y el 24 de agosto. El estudio emplea metodología mixta, usando como principales técnicas de investigación el análisis cuantitativo de las métricas de Twitter y el análisis de contenido. Se concluye que Protección Civil y Mossos de Esquadra fueron los mayores gestores de la crisis. Pero, los perfiles de Policía Nacional, Guardia Civil y del Ministerio del Interior fueron los que obtuvieron mayor viralidad. Finalmente, se debe destacar que la información que transmitieron los perfiles político-institucionales como la Consejería de Interior y los ministerios fue de poco interés ciudadano, cayendo en la ‘sobreexposición de la política’.

This article uses conversation analysis to investigate the communicative practices of unacquainted, matched Tinder users in chat conversations, in the process of developing a potential romantic relationship. Drawing on data from 157 Tinder conversations, the analysis explores the occasioning of talk about personal and intimate matters. The analysis shows that the interactional device through which the revelation of personal and intimate information is prompted is the ‘elicited self-disclosure sequence’. In cases in which a direct question fails to prompt a disclosure from the recipient, the ‘volunteered self-disclosure sequence’ emerges as an alternative to promote the revelation of further intimate information. We conclude by observing that relationships are ongoing routine accomplishments arising in mundane sociorelational contexts. The data are in Spanish and Catalan with English translations.

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By approaching border security as a form of social interaction, the aim of this research is to provide a more thorough consideration of the how in the everyday communicative practices of police officers and civilians who participate in crime control at borders. Employing a corpus of 272 videos of police checks carried out by the Spanish Guardia Civil at La Jonquera–Le Perthus (the Spain–France border area), conversation analysis (CA) is introduced and applied as a novel perspective in the field of border security studies. From this approach, this article scrutinizes how meaningful actions emerge, and their relevance to the development of the encounter. The analysis highlights how certain actions can be consequential for police checks, such as initiating and modifying turns in conversation to overcome problematic situations that arise, for example, from the (non) ownership of the stopped vehicle, or the (lack of) reason for stopping it, which interfere with the police agenda in the management of border security (i.e., the resolution of suspicion). Consequently, this article sheds light on the role of CA in promoting analyses of micro-level border practices, allowing for the detailed examination of how border encounters are locally managed.